"Teardown: Microsoft Surface Tablet"
http://www.eetimes.com/design/microcont … ace-Tablet
Am still assuming power consumption better in RT considering Surface vs. Surface-Pro.
Is the difference small enough to make the Pro version an obvious better bargain?
I do not yet know. 
Possibly upcoming, though a Win8 product may yet share the fate
of the 1988 Tandy-RadioShack CD Recorder.
Never made it to market.
"TI shows embedded tablet with $70 BoM"
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"The eTab is based on TI’s Sitara AM335x SoC, a single core ARM Cortex-A8 running at up to 720 MHz that costs as little as $5 in volume. The seven-inch tablet also includes a number of TI analog chips and a TI Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo device, in total about $13 in TI parts.“It’s a non-traditional tablet that could be used as anything from a home automation solution to a replacement for a printed menu in a restaurant,” said Troy Coleman, a marketing director at TI."
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news … th--70-BoM
SylvieBarak of EE|Times commented @ 10/31/2012 2:49 PM EDT:
"TI has a certain quality level to adhere to, so for the firm to get down as low as $70 is really pretty impressive."
"Amazon to acquire Texas Instruments’ mobile chip business for entry into the tablet & smartphone market?"
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"This follows news from last month that Texas Instruments is exiting the mobile processor market, suspending any further developments of its line of OMAP ARM SoCs."
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