Intel's original plans to ship 40 million tablet SoCs in 2014 might be in trouble as its upcoming 14nm Cherry Trail based SoC has been delayed from November 2014 to Q1 2015, according to a fresh report from Digitimes.com.


Citing sources from the upstream supply chain, Digitimes.com reports that the release of the 14nm Cherry Trail-based SoC, which has been originally planned for the third quarter this year and which should have been a big part of Intel's tablet processor shipments, has been delayed, first to November this year and then to Q1 2015.

Intel has been pushing hard in the tablet market and while ASUS is currently its largest adopter, Intel has been also helping China companies to adopt its processors for their devices.

The Cherry Trail is based on 14nm Airmont architecture and support both 32-bit and 64-bit Android and Windows OS. The devices based on these processors will not be available on the market before February next year, if Intel does not further delay them.

Currently, analysts expect Intel's tablet processor shipments to be less than 30 million units in 2014.



Source: Digitimes.com.