The company has been considering designs for such a device since as early as 1983, and some smaller consumer-electronics companies already have rolled tablet computers onto the market.
Corning's Gorilla glass enables device makers to introduce durable display products with innovative designs.
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Woodside, a nine-year Google veteran who was tapped as CEO of Motorola Mobility, started his remarks with a veiled jibe at Apple, which recently won a patent dispute with rival device maker Samsung Electronics Co. over its iPhone designs.
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Intel is an integrated device manufacturer (IDM), a firm that both designs and manufactures.
Tegra 4-based tablet reference designs offer a technical "recipe" for mobile device developers using the new mobile processor from NVIDIA, significantly accelerating the process of developing powerful new tablets.
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These alternate designs have the potential to allow malware on the device to intercept the card number before it is encrypted by the software running on the mobile device.
Samsung's Galaxy S3 is a very different device to the iPhone, and in general Samsung has moved away from designs that are similar to Apple's.
He's as rigorous as any formal engineer in that he draws up designs for each work but, he said, the finished device can look very different to the initial conception.
Apple, which works with suppliers to test new designs all the time, could opt not to proceed with the device.
To get the device to meet their goals, development took two years as the company played with multiple designs.
Surface with Windows RT - to give the device its full name - runs on a chip made by Nvidia, based on the designs of British company Arm Holdings.
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