CES: Freescale's Tablet

Freescale, the superconductor manufacturer whose chips are inside many eReaders, including the Kindle, will be showing off its reference design for a $200 tablet computer with a 7″ touch screen that combines the attributes of a smartphone and a notebook at CES this week. eBookNewser had a conversation this morning with Freescale’s marketing director, Glen Burchers, about this tablet design and its impact on eReading.

Burchers told eBookNewser that, according to Freescale’s data, derived in part from the company’s role supplying chips for many eReaders, sales of eReaders exceeded reports: “actual sales were in excess of what people think they were.

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