#MEMS: "Windows 8 Tablets Sport Snazzy Sensors"

Microsoft does tablets right, at least in the sensor category, since it has mandated that all touchscreen-based tablets and convertibles using its Windows 8 operating system have at least nine MEMS sensors. As a result, the revolutionary apps that made the iPad famous can not be more easily ported to the Microsoft camp since they already have the necessary sensors: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


The ultra-low power Intel Atom “Clover Trail” Z2760 processor, designed especially for Windows 8, powers the Acer Iconia Tab. SOURCE: Microsoft

Here is what Windows8Center says about sensors for tablets: Tablets for Windows 8 span the spectrum of power/cost, but MS-mandates maker sure all have the MEMS sensors that made the iPad famous, according to presenters at the MEMS Executive Congress (MEC, Scottdale, Ariz.) where manufacturers of accelerometers, gyroscopes and digital compasses gather annually...
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