Posted on 01/11/2012 12:01:30 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Strikes Multi-year, Multi-Device Strategic Partnership with Motorola Mobility*, Including Smartphones that Motorola Will Begin to Ship in 2H 2012
Lenovo K800 Smartphone Based on Intel® Technology Available in Second Quarter 2012 in China
INTERNATIONAL CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, Las Vegas, Jan. 10, 2012 Intel Corporation today announced a number of advancements across its smartphone business, including a multi-year, multi-device strategic relationship with Motorola Mobility*, Inc. and a handset by Lenovo* based on the companys new Intel® Atom processor platform. Several smartphones based on the new Atom processor are expected to come to market in 2012.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsroom.intel.com ...
Now things are really getting interesting.
They posted that the demo was a fraud the other day. If you look at the “Demo” of the Intel laptop running the racecar game; you will see that there was a VNC logo (video player) that appeared, prior to the ‘demo’.. The demonstrator had a wheel and was pretending to race, but instead of playing a game, he was playing a movie..
Instead of showboating the chipset’s ability to render graphics in an intensive game - which was what was intended - we saw a performer mimmicking the moves as the laptop played a simple video file. Is there any other word than “fraud” for this kind of action?
So much for Intel giving a legitimate demo. My cell phone can play a video file. Intel has a reputation to uphold, and pulling stunts like this does not inspire consumer confidence.
Intel details new Medfield Atom processor, announces added Android app support (update: video)<>
See link for more.
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We've spotted a couple of devices today with Intel's new Medfield chip, and this evening the company is finally coming clean about its forthcoming Atom processor, which is now confirmed to be coming to Lenovo and Motorola phones and tablets later this year. The single-core, 32nm processor, which is now called the Atom Z2460, is clocked at 1.6GHz and supports hyper-threading. That processor is then bundled with the Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX540 graphics, and Intel's 6540 HSPA+ modem inside the reference design. While Intel was showing an Android 4.0 tablet, the reference design is running Android 2.3, but battery life seems much improved over Moorestown: Intel says it gets six hours of video playback, 45 hours of music and 14 days of standby time on a charge.
However, the biggest question about Intel's Android devices has been app support. Back in September, Intel and Google announced a partnership to allow developers to compile apps for both ARM and x86 at the same time, but today Intel's detailing some more Android app magic. According to Intel's Dave Whalen, almost all apps in the Android Market will run on phones or tablets with Medfield. Even apps that haven't been optimized for Intel will work here's Angry Birds. "Developers don't have to recompile them. We are trying to address the fragmentation issue," Whalen explained. That said, Intel says that a small percentage of apps won't work. Stay tuned for more from our Intel live blog.
Update: We've got a hands-on look at the apps and the gaming performance. Check out the video below.
Intel's Medfield & Atom Z2460 Arrive for Smartphones: It's Finally Here
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by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2012 8:00:00 PM
It's here. Intel's first smartphone SoC that you'll actually be able to buy in a device before the end of the year. The platform is called Medfield and Paul Otellini just announced its first device partners.
Medfield starts out as a bonafide mobile SoC. Whereas Moorestown was a "two-chip" solution, Medfield is just one - the Penwell SoC:
The SoC is only available in a PoP (Package on Package) configuration measuring 12mm x 12mm. Intel wouldn't give out a die size but it did show me a Penwell sample without the stacked DRAM:
Since I know the measurements of the package I could estimate the dimensions of the silicon itself. My math worked out to be around 62mm^2. That's larger than a Tegra 2-class SoC, but smaller than Tegra 3 or Apple's A5. The diagram of its high level architecture above helps explain why.
There's only a single version of Medfield being announced today: the Intel Atom Z2460. The Z2460 features a single Atom core with a 512KB L2 cache, a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU and a dual-channel LPDDR2 memory interface. In a world where talking about four Cortex A9s and PowerVR SGX 544MP2s isn't uncommon, Medfield starts out almost sounding a bit...tame. But then you see its performance:
Further discussion and benchmarks at the link,.
ATOM Bombs ahead! Windows??
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The CPU
Medfield is the platform, Penwell is the SoC and the CPU inside Penwell is codenamed Saltwell. It's honestly not much different than the Bonnell core used in the original Atom, although it does have some tweaks for both power and performance.
Almost five years ago I wrote a piece on the architecture of Intel's Atom. Luckily (for me, not Intel), Atom's architecture hasn't really changed over the years so you can still look back at that article and have a good idea of what is at the core of Medfield/Penwell. Atom is still a dual-issue, in-order architecture with Hyper Threading support. The integer pipeline is sixteen stages long, significantly deeper than the Cortex A9's. The longer pipeline was introduced to help reduce Atom's power consumption by lengthening some of the decode stages and increasing cache latency to avoid burning through the core's power budget. Atom's architects, similar to those who worked on Nehalem, had the same 2:1 mandate: every new feature added to the processor's design had to deliver at least a 2% increase in performance for every 1% increase in power consumption.
Atom is a very narrow core as the diagram below will show:
Its X86 architecture and ISA,,,look for MS to say something about Windows 8 at sometime in the future.
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Above from Anandtech.
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Goes with the photo above.
Photo above is from an article at Anandtech in 2008.....
Medfield chip is not on a 45 nm process....it is 32nm processor.
"Currently, the A5 chip that ticks inside the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S uses Imaginations PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU cores"...
"Today, the company shed more light on the first two PowerVR Series6 designs, the G6400 and G6200. According to a press release issued today, we can expect 20 times the performance of current-generation hardware with five times greater efficiency. "
So, what I see is Imagination telling Intel "I'll see your Penwill, and I'll raise you 20x performance, at 20% of your power consumption!"
Thanks Hodar.
Wowzo. Thanks Hodar.
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