Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @05:20AM from the pocket-heating-device dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "After years of promises to enter the smartphone market, Intel has finally done so. During his keynote at CES, Intel's Chief executive Paul Otellini said that Intel has signed Lenovo and Motorola to contracts to use its Atom processors in smartphones. Unlike past launches, Intel has held Medfield back until its partners were ready to go to press as well. According to an early preview, Medfield pairs a 1.6GHz Atom CPU with an SGX540 GPU designed by PowerVR. This is the same GPU we've seen tip up in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Droid Razr, though Intel is clocking it higher, at 400MHz. Intel's new SoC encodes video at 720p at 30 fps, can playback 1080p at 30 fps, and supports 1920×1080 output via HDMI. The first smartphone to carry an Intel chip will debut on China Unicom during the second quarter."

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the specs and benchies are a YAWN by alen · 2012-01-11 05:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

the Apple A6 and other new ARM CPU's that will hit this year will wipe the floor with medfield.
powervr 540? CRAPPOLA. Apple is already at 543 and is going next generation PowerVR in 2012
intel should be making these on 22nm and new products being released now, not months from now. but they have some financial software telling them that Core CPU's have more profit than SoC's and will lose market share little by little just like Sun and all the other CPU makers from the 1990's that were only in the high end.
Mark my words in the next 5 years ARM is going to have a CPU good enough for a laptop. the cost structure of Wintel will make this a huge financial/profit opportunity for laptop makers who will dump intel for most of their products except the high end where you need the power for dev/gaming or whatever.