IDG News Service: Intel eyes with difficulty against the rising tablet market with its latest Moorestown chip, which the company thinks will help to break competitor Arms leading position in the market for handheld devices. Wednesday the company declared a chip package based on processor-series Atom Z6, which can be used in mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

The chip Moorestown will consist of a low power single-core Atom processor that runs between 1.2GHz and 1.9GHz, as well as graphic processor cores with the choice of video in high-definition. Intel, which primarily is known to manufacture chip for computers, has in the past sold handheld processors with its portfolio of ARM-based XScale processors, which were then resold to the company Marvell Technology in 2006. Intel would now like to add its x86 architecture, which mainly found in computers, in handheld devices with Moorestown.

Tablet PCs are handheld devices with touch screen and screen-based keyboards that permit customers to watch video, surf the web, play and read e-books. Arm processors found in most smartphones today, and have since moved up the flow of tablet computers. Arm has so an advantage on the tablet market, and lots of of the largest computer manufacturers select to use its processor designs to tablets.