Intel, the Chip maker has unveiled that its latest Medfield smartphone and tablet reference designs, the path-laying hardware Intel expects will influence manufacturers to adopt its x86 mobile chip instead of hanging with ARM.
The Phone running Gingerbread OS and the Tablet running Ice Cream Sandwich OS were demonstrated to MIT’s Technology Review, although just a render of the devices has been released. Yet, the chip maker’s impressions from Intel’s initial SoC (System-on-Chip) seem positive.
According to the official reports, Medfield grabs all of the core processing tasks onto a single chip. This so-called SoC design impersonates the design strategy of ARM licensees like Qualcomm and NVIDIA that have been far more successful in grabbing their silicon in mobile devices, which Intel has managed. The Company states that the benefit of a SoC design is battery frugality.
The precise nature of the power enhancements are yet to be seen, although there seems to be no issue with performance. software and hardware combination tweaks in fact sees both tablet and smartphone do well with common mobility tasks, like multimedia recording and playback.
Intel architecture VP Stephen Smith says that he phone was powerful and pleasing to use, on a par with the most recent iPhone and Android handsets. It possibly will play Blu-Ray-quality video and stream it to a TV if desired; Web browsing was smooth and fast. Further he says that Intel has built circuits into the Medfield chip especially to speed up Android apps and Web browsing.
According to Intel’s own tests, Medfield provides better graphics performance, faster browsing, and lower power consumption than the top three phones on sale nowadays. Smith expect products based on these to be unveiled in the first half of 2012 and he confirms by claiming that now we have [Medfield] in place, we can accelerate.
