MIDs on display at IDF San Francisco 2008

Back when it was still called Centrino Atom, the Intel Atom was cited as being tucked inside at least 20 Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) at April's IDF in Shanghai. After some double-checking and list comparisons, I came up with a final number of 27 devices. Four months later, we've got Steve from UMPCPortal at IDF in San Francisco today sharing a list of the 19 MIDs on display there. I've redone the chart (see below) for easier viewing and added links to all the devices we've seen/heard of before, which as you'll see is most of them. Intel often shows the same set of devices again and again, though, so this is just really par for the course.

There seems to be a few discrepancies in the original chart, but I've done my best to leave everything as is since the info comes straight from an official Intel handout. One thing I did change was the Fujitsu model number, which is listed as U2020 on the flyer (note that there's also no mention of the SSD option).

Device	Display	OS	RAM	Storage	Wireless
Aigo P8880	4.8" 800x480	Linux	512MB	4GB SSD	WiFi, BT, GPS COMA1X
Asus R50A	5.6" 1024x600	Vista	1GB	32GB SSD	WiFi, BT, GPS HSDPA, WiMAX GSM/GPRS
BenQ S6	4.8" 800x480	Linux	512MB	4GB SSD	WiFi, BT HSDPA or TD-SCDMA
Clarion MiND	4.8" 800x480	Linux	512MB	4GB SSD	WiFi, BT, GPS iSDB-T/DVB-T
Compal JAX10	4.8" 800x480	Linux	256MB 512MB	4GB SSD 8GB SSD	WiFi, BT, GPS HSDPA, WiMAX EDGE, EV-DO
Digifriends WiMAX MID	4.8" 800x480	Linux XP	1GB	30GB HDD	WiFi, BT T-DMB
Fujitsu U2010	5.6" 1280x800	Vista	1GB	60GB HDD	WiFi, BT
Hanbit Pepper Pad 3	7" 800x480	Linux XP	Up to 1GB	30GB HDD 60GB HDD 2GB SSD 4GB SSD	WiFi, BT, GPS* HSDPA, EDGE UMTS, GSM Other options
KJS/Inventec X5	4.8" 800x480	Linux	512MB	30GB HDD 60GB HDD	WiFi, BT, GPS HSDPA
KJS/Inventec S32	4.8" 800x480	Linux	1GB	2GB SSD 4GB SSD	WiFi, BT, GPS
Lenovo IdeaPad U8	4.8" 800x480	Linux	512MB	4GB SSD 8GB SSD	WiFi, BT, GPS* EDGE, WiMAX
Panasonic Toughbook U1	5.6" 1024x600	Vista XP	1GB	16GB SSD 32GB SSD	WiFi, BT, GPS* WWAN
Sophia Systems Pear Tree	5"	Linux Vista XP	1GB	40GB HDD 4GB SSD	WiFi, BT, GPS* HSDPA, WiMAX PHS w/SIM
Sharp Willcom D4	5" 1024x600	Vista	1GB	40GB HDD	WiFi, BT Willcom PHS
TriGem MID	4.8" 1024x600	Linux XP	512MB	30GB HDD	WiFi, BT WiBro, T-DMB
USI MID 150	4.8" 800x480	Linux	512MB	8GB SSD	WiFi, BT, GPS
Wibrain i1	4.8" 1024x600	Linux XP	1GB	30GB HDD 60GB HDD 8GB SSD 16GB SSD 32GB SSD	WiFi, BT HSDPA, EDGE
Wibrain M1	4.8" 1024x600	Linux XP	512MB 1GB	8GB SSD 16GB SSD	WiFi, BT HSDPA Mobile DTV
Yukyung X5 Atom	4.8" 800x480	Linux Vista XP	512MB 1GB	30GB HDD 60GB HDD	WiFi, BT HSDPA, WiBro

*Optional

Though it appears that the five unlinked devices are brand new, that isn't entirely true. We may have never seen anything about the Inventec X5 and S32, but the company has been associated with UMPCs and MIDs in the past. And I've never heard of TriGem before, but Wibrain is well known around these parts and Yukyung is associted with Viliv, whose UMPCs were seen at CES 2008 and who recently released an X5 PMP in Korea. [UPDATE: The Yukyung X5 seems to actually be the Viliv S5; there's also now a Viliv S7 UMPC.]

I'm not sure why UMPCs like the Willcom D4 and Asus R50A are included in this MID list either, as I always thought that Intel's MID definition included Linux. If this is no longer the case, then why aren't other Atom devices like the Kohjinsha SC3 or LG XNote B831 included? I'm confused.