Intel has two reference designs of a smartphone and a tablet has been developed with its new Atom Medfield chipset is included. With this mobile processor is Intel willing to have a fist go to the ARM-violence.
The editors of Technology Review got a smartphone and a tablet from Intel, reference designs that are already in the direction of manufacturers are sent. According to the site performed the on Android Gingerbread running smartphone, which provides the necessary road has an iPhone 4, with the Medfield processor good: the browser and Android applications would run smoothly.
The Atom Medfield chip in the smartphone would also have hd-video, seamless playback. In addition, it would be the smartphone video to a television can stream. The integrated camera would be in burst mode ten 8-megapixel photos with a speed of 15fps. The Atom Medfield processor, according to Intel are optimized for fast processing of photos, while there is also additional imaging software the by Intel acquired Dutch company Silicon Hive in Android is included.
Technology Review also tested, briefly, a tablet with an Atom Medfield processor. It was equipped with Android Ice Cream Sandwich and it had a touch screen that is a fraction larger than the 9,7″screen of the iPad 2. The weight and the thickness of the tablet would be almost identical to Apples latest tablet. The battery life of both the tablet and the smartphone are, however, not measured.
Intel hopes that the 32nm baked Atom Medfield chipsets are a good alternative for the wide ARM chips on the market. In the soc, the cpu and Platform Controller Hub integrated. Intel claims that Medfield chipsets therefore a longer battery life than ARM-based processors. May be on the upcoming CES trade show in January and the Mobile World Congress in February, the first smartphones and tablets with Medfield processor announced.
In 2013 wants to be the chip maker to make the jump to a 22nm process as the energy consumption of chips if the Atom Medfield reducing even further. However, the company has no plans yet, as Qualcomm has a plan, and also the separate wi-fi chips in the processor to integrate.