By Clint Boulton, eWeek
MIPS Technologies scored some first-mover points for the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show a month ago when it announced its 7-inch, Ainovo Novo7 Basic tablet, the first slate to run Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. ICS, a merging of the Android 2.x smartphone branch and Android 3.x Honeycomb branch for tablets, includes software navigation keys, a holographic user interface and several other UI improvements. The Novo7 tablet is powered by a 1GHz CPU built by MIPS and an application processor from Ingenic Semiconductor. The tablet, which will soon be offered with 8-inch and 9-inch displays, will be available in the United States within several months for only $100.
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