Intel will launch the Medfield platform next year, to tackle the ultramobile market and bring the Atom family to new levels of performance. The processor giant not only claims better performance but also better energy efficiency than ARM.
ARM has been advancing and has become an all the more serious alternative for ultramobiles. The processor architecture has been licensed to many circuit manufacturers like Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Samsung. The companies then build their own circuits on the same CPU architecture and the high effiiciency has been the biggest selling potin.
Intel’s Chief technician Justin Rattner pointed out in an interview with Reuters that the current Moorestown architecture is already on par when idle, but with Medfield it will be on the same level of power consumption during load too.
Just as ARM have been confident about its near monopoly on the smartphone market, Intel is gaining confidence to advance.
“I expect us to just pull away after that because we have a fundamental technology advantage, which they don’t have,” kommenterade Justin Rattner
Intel will make sure to be ready for the next generation platform for smartphones, and its extended cooperation with Nokia for the MeeGo platform shows that it’s not just about hardware.
