Chip-maker Intel, which has struggled historically in the mobile phone semiconductor market, last week unveiled a number of advancements across its smartphone business, including a deal with Motorola Mobility and a new handset by Lenovo based on the company’s new Intel Atom processor platform. Several smartphones based on the new Atom processor are expected to come to market in 2012.
“The best of Intel computing is coming to smartphones,” Intel CEO Paul Otellini said at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Otellini also detailed the latest developments around its Ultrabook specification for light-weight and thin laptop computers and described how the company is hoping to deliver better experiences across a range of mobile devices.
The Intel CEO highlighted the Intel Atom processor Z2460 platform, formerly “Medfield”, which was specifically designed for smartphones and tablets.
Sanjay Jha, chairman and CEO of Motorola Mobility, joined Otellini on stage and the two executives provided details of their companies’ multi-year, multi-device relationship. The effort includes smartphones that Motorola will begin to sell in the second half of this year using Atom processors and running Google’s Android software. The collaboration also covers tablets.
Otellini said Intel would raise the bar for tablet computing by offering compatibility with the millions of existing applications and devices; instant-on technology and support for the upcoming Windows 8’s Metro user interface. — Edited from Consumer Lifestyle News (www.cln-online.org)
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