It’s the second day of Computex 2013 and today the major announcements are coming from Intel. In contrast to yesterday’s events which put the focus on specs and specific products, Intel’s keynote puts more emphasis on the technology that will power the devices of the future.

Specifically the keynote revolved around several of the company’s developments in the field of mobile computing with the spotlight focused on 2-in-1 devices which the company treats as “the game changer”. These include the Merrifield chips with built-in LTE designed for Android devices and the quad-core Bay Trail chips designed for both Android and Windows 8 devices.

Intel said the first devices that will run on the Merrifield chip might make their debut by February next year, probably at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Bay Trail chips on the other hand are scheduled to arrive before the holidays. The Bay Trail chip will support high resolution displays and will be priced starting $299. The chip will power Android, Windows 8 and even Chromebook models in the future.

But of course, the star of Intel’s keynote is the company’s Haswell processors. According to Intel, their new Haswell line of processors are more power-efficient than their predecessors. 

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Intel’s Bay Trail atom processors maybe the saving grace that Windows 8 is waiting for to increase its penetration and adoption in today’s nearly tablet-centric consumer market.

According to Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini, the arrival of their Bay trail chip will push prices down to $200 over the next couple of quarters. Intel’s Bay trail chip was first introduced in this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2013) and promises to provide performance through quad-core processors without sacrificing power efficiency.

Based on recent reports, Windows 8 as well as the PC market in general has seen a decline in sales which some attribute to Windows 8’s poor performance and the market’s reluctance to upgrade their machines due to the ”tough” learning curve for new users to efficiently use the new system.

If Otellini’s statements were to become true, a lower price point Windows 8 touchscreen laptop may well be the solution for people to upgrade to Microsoft’s new operating system. At present, most touchscreen laptops cost at the very least $400-$500, while the more affordable and at times equally productive Android and Apple tablets run for around $200-$500.

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