BAD HARDWARE WEEK

"Ontario" will be a monolithic system-on-chip that will contain two x86 cores, a DirectX 11-generation GPU ("Evergreen" architecture most likely, though unconfirmed) and a DDR3 memory controller. The two x86 cores will be based on AMD's brand new "Bobcat" architecture, which is designed for very low power consumption. In fact, AMD says that a single "Bobcat" core scale down to sub 1-Watt levels. "Bobcat" will have x86-64 (AMD64) and virtualization compatibility, contain support for the SSE/SSE2/SSE3 extension sets, and will be a single-threaded out-of-order execution unit. That last part is interesting, as it means that "Bobcat" will be fundamentally different from Intel's Atom, which is a dual-threaded in-order type of CPU.

BAD HARDWARE: One out of order CPU core will drive integrated GPU, the other tablet OS. Great.