Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Intel has revealed its latest Medfield smartphone and tablet reference designs, the path-laying hardware the chip company hopes will persuade manufacturers to adopt its x86 mobile chip rather than stick with ARM.The two devices – the phone running Gingerbread and the tablet running Ice Cream Sandwich were demonstrated to MIT’s Technology Review, though only a render of the handset has been released. Unlike previous Intel chips, Medfield pulls all of the core processing tasks onto a single chip.
This so-called System-on-Chip (SoC) design mimics the design strategy of ARM licensees like NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, which have been far more successful in getting their silicon in mobile devices than Intel has managed.The phone was powerful and pleasing to use, on a par with the latest iPhone and Android handsets and it could play Blu-Ray-quality video and stream it to a TV if desired; Web browsing was smooth and fast.
Meanwhile, the pair are capable of capturing ten full-size 8-megapixel images at a rate of 15 per second, using technology in part based on Silicon Hive, the mobile processing specialists Intel acquired earlier in the year.According to Intel’s own tests, Medfield delivers faster browsing, better graphics performance and lower power consumption than “the top three” phones on sale today.
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