Intel Corp. on Monday said that it had started sales of Atom-based system-on-chip (SoC) for tablets formerly code-named "Oak Trail". Over 35 innovative tablet and hybrid designs from various companies running a variety of operating systems will be available this year starting from May.

Intel Atom Z670 is made using 32nm process technology, has one x86 processing core with Hyper-Threading technology and operates at 1.50GHz. The code-named Lincroft chip also integrates Intel GMA 600 graphics core (OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL 2.1, OpenVG 1.1, 400MHz), 32-bit LPDDR1/DDR2 memory controller and video encode/decode logic. It is paired with SM35 platform controller hub (PCB) code-named Whitney Point that enables support of Microsoft Windows operating system. The Atom Z670 costs $75 in 1000-unit quantities.