Intel is one of the companies responsible for the growth of the personal computer and because of the chips that it provides to go in the machines. For many years however the company has not been involved in the smart phone or tablet market and the company dominating processor production here has been ARM. Last week it was announced that Intel are about to start fighting back against and will be launching a mobile processor for a smart phone that is going to be operating Google’s operating system, Android.
The vice president of the architecture group at Intel is Stephen Smith who has said, “It is expected that we are going to be announcing the product in the first half of this year. These will be designed so that companies who produce smart phones can use to design systems based around them.”
Intel has so far been unable to break into the mobile processing market in the same way ARM has because its processors have generally consumed more power than the equivalent processes by their rival. The new processor that has been announced by Intel has currently got the name Medfield and the chip is a significant step forward in efficiency and power consumption for Intel chips.
Mr Smith continued, “The reason this chip is more power efficient is because it is our first offering on a single chip. In the past we have been spreading the processing power across several chips and this is a design that requires more power.” This brings the chip much closer to the designs that are seen on ARM processors.
The magazine Technology Review recently was able to see a phone that was operating with the new Intel chip. They commented that the device was very similar to the iPhone but it was notably lighter, probably because of its construction from plastic rather than metal and glass. The phone was running the Android operating system but not the latest version. The magazine commented that like the iPhone it runs smoothly and appeared to be comfortably powerful.
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