Acer has removed some of the mystery surrounding its first gaming tablet, the Predator 8.

It will run Android, and have Intel’s Atom X7 processor, code-named Cherry Trail. More details of the tablet were shared by an Acer executive during the Computex keynote of Kirk Skaugen, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the PC client group.

The Predator 8 is the first Android tablet with the Atom X7 chip to be announced, although a number of Cherry Trail tablets running Microsoft’s Windows OS have been announced—including Microsoft’s Surface 3, which started shipping last month.

The Predator was demonstrated on stage running a racing game. The graphics ran smoothly, reflecting the amount of work Intel has put into improving the graphics on the Cherry Trail chips. However, during a hands-on test earlier this year, Cherry Trail didn’t provide much of an improvement in battery life.

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