Intel-Powered Smartphones Arriving Soon

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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Thank goodness Intel rescuing all those poor folks

[DarkOx]

I mean just as the government their is cracking down and blocking their access to dating and singing contest shows, carried on prime time television. Intel rides to the rescue on its white horse to deliver all the 1080p reality tv they can handle right to the palm of their hot little hands.

Only on God's flat disk.

Re:the specs and benchies are a YAWN

[alen]

and how many Windows 8 tablets have been sold?

between iOS and Android there are hundreds of millions of ARM devices sold every year. The Samsung Galaxy S2 is more powerful than phones with medfield will be and that's also a year old. Medfield is crap unless it's a free on contract phone

if you look at a $500 PC a good guess is $200 or so goes to Intel/Microsoft. CPU/OS/motherboard/chipset etc. if you can build a laptop that does say 95% of what most people do on a laptop or desktop, sell it for $500 but have it cost less to build due to it not being powered by Intel then it's going to get built and sold. and that day will come soon. won't be good for most gaming/dev work but 99% of the people won't care.

there are rumors of ARM powered Apple laptops. Apple is developing based on this strategy. they need a cheaper computer but not at the expense of margins. at some point the numbers for a ARM powered laptop will line up to where they can sell it and make a lot of money and they will do it at the expense of Intel.

the evidence is there. custom CPU design. Mac app store which is filled with expensive iOS versions of a lot of software.