If they're building a tablet case with a dedicated PCB
and all kinds of guff to get the ports to the outside, why not build it around the CM3? That would allow them to get it quite a bit thinner instead of having to accommodate stacked USB ports inside the case.
Okay, there's no CM4. Yet. But if you have a CM3-based tabled, a CM4 upgrade would be easy as pi. The only restriction that I see on a CM4 using the same socket as a CM3 is having to ditch the second HDMI port. Which doesn't strike me as a great loss for CM-based systems.
I've actually thought about such a tablet, using a CM3 and the DSI touch screen.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
