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Asus Fonepad 7 with Moorefield is available at 1st September.

Probably China only, which makes sense since nobody else in the world would talk with a tablet - something I don't get about the chinese actually.

Anyway, the platform seems to be ready. Not sure what the modem is - I couldn't find reference to whether it is using XMM7260. If so, the platform would be complete and actually pretty high end. Considering that an official 64 bit version of Android is going to be released soon by Google, Moorefield could still be the only high end 64 bit platform available in the market. Taking the first real worldwide capable LTE modem from Intel and competitive pricing, this could be quite a surprise for the ARMy. Still no phones announced with it which bothers me a bit - it should be perfectly fine for that, at least in phablets. And Merrifield should be great for smaller phones - something I would definitely prefer performance wise instead of those wimpy ARM SoCs used in normal sized (up to 4,5") smartphones.

I really wonder about the power consumption of the high end Moorefield. According to what Intel claimed when introducing BayTrail, it should be much better suited to go into smaller phones, which would make it the first high-end platform that can go into the mass segment of medium size smartphones - and that at a competitive pricing. Where's the catch?