Intel enters the smartphone market with Motorola and Lenovo

[jordiqui]

The American giant Intel has announced the partners that will drive its entry into the mobile market; they will be Motorola and Lenovo.

Said and done. Intel announced its intention to enter the expanding mobile market, where until now it was letting a great market opportunity pass by, currently dominated by ARM designs.

It was CES 2012 held in Las Vegas, the stage where the company, led by Paul Otellini, announced the agreements with Motorola and Lenovo to bring its processors to the segment of smartphones and tablets.

Lenovo and Intel will bring a mobile phone out of hand, the K800, of great power, with Android 4.0 and with the Medfield chip. Its 8 megapixel camera will be able to take 15 photographs per second and will have a battery of great duration. For the moment it will only be available in the Chinese market during the second quarter of 2012.

The processor will be an Intel Atom Z2460 at 1.6 GHz with a PowerVR540 GPU at 400 MHz, a rather competitive bet according to the characteristics of the market, according to experts.

Motorola will be Intel's other partner for several years and will bring out its devices with Intel technology in their entrails for the summer of this same year. It will be interesting to see the evolution of this partnership and the consequences of Google having chosen Intel.

Hand in hand with the announcement of these two important partners, Intel presented its Clover Trail chipset, designed to be housed in the heart of tablets.

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[Nemo]

I thought he would do it with LG as he had done in the past.
The truth is that it was strange that a giant like Intel would let this booming market pass by, I think it took too long…and I think the same about AMD.
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[Bm4n]

I don't know if an x86 will be able to adapt to this little world...

[Nemo]

@Bm4n:

I don't know if an x86 will be able to adapt to this little world…

Well, the ones that are being presented are based on the Atom. Granted it's not a marvel of technology but it's a step.

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[Bm4n]

@Nemo:

Man, the ones presenting are based on the Atom. I agree that it's not a marvel of technology but it's a step.

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The Atom themselves are an example that X86 for these things is not very fine, that is, the cheap ones are single-core and with their integrated graphics you can't even watch youtube in HD... that's why these new AMD Fusion are more interesting, too bad they get into the prices of laptops with i3. I mean it would be much more logical right now to put together a net with a dual-core ARM a GPU of these that play up to 1080 and a Linux that goes well with 1GB of RAM.

[Nemo]

Hehe, Bm4n, I knew you would go down that road, which is why I emphasized "based", because they are not exactly Atom (even though they share the name).

What surprises me about all this is that after two or three years of resounding success of mobile devices (which in electronics is a world of its own) Intel has not gotten its act together to develop a specific platform and stop using leftovers and patches, after all, their business is processors, and I don't think they lack resources.

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[Bm4n]

No, Intel's business is x86 and there it is king, but the rest is not good for it, just look at its integrated circuits. The problem with x86 is that right now with the current instruction sets it is too heavy and I don't think it will adapt to compete with ARM in the mobile sector. What they should do is an alternative but it would require too much investment more than the R&D that would be needed for them to dedicate themselves to the graphics market, which perhaps suits them better. Although who knows in this everything can surprise but I doubt it will be with a rehash of the atom...

[Magog]

Well, if this is confirmed (Lenovo K800) then the others can start to tremble. And that's with just one core.

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[Nemo]

The question that arises now, with the Intel-Motorola-Google alliances, is: Will Motorola manufacture the next Google Nexus, and will it run on an Intel processor?

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[Bm4n]

If I had already seen the intel graphics about its performance, I really don't doubt its power, which is normal if they now released a new version of ARM, it would perform above the rest, but I doubt its efficiency, which is not the best. Because in these current mobiles, there is no lack of power, there is a lack of battery and optimization. And on top of that, Android is not native X86, so when porting it, I don't think the performance will be the same.

[Yorus]

@Bm4n:

Because these current phones have plenty of power, but lack battery and optimization

Amen. We have reached a point where charging the phone once a day and in some cases twice seems normal, and it is true that we use them longer, for more things and they are more powerful, apart from having more technologies integrated, but the issue of batteries is becoming a bigger burden.

[Magog]

If the problem is that on a mobile phone what really consumes battery is the screen and the data. The percentage of battery usage of a processor is minimal compared to these others.

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[Bm4n]

@Magog:

If the problem is that on a mobile what really consumes battery is the screen and data. The percentage of battery usage of a processor is minimal compared to these others.

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Do not believe, OLEDs for example have a fairly low screen consumption. The 3 things that consume in a mobile are: screen, wireless connections and CPU/GPU. I would say that their consumption matters equally, it is more in the first two little more can be done, the consumptions of the processors vary greatly and that is noticed in that if for example you play a game of angra birds the battery drops by a third... bad thing.

[Magog]

It really depends on what we are doing with it… This figure has done a study on this subject and concludes that generally most of the energy is spent on the data module and the graphics system (including screen, backlight…) but it has many nuances. It is interesting to read it.

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[XRAYBoY]

Intel is very late to this... just like how they make a place for themselves through patents

Edit: @Magog:

Well if this is confirmed (Lenovo K800) the others can start shaking. And that's with just a single core.

Look at what it's superior in and the real utility it can have. Look at what it's compared to in terms of consumption (Chinese phones at $70 perhaps?)
To me it seems like a lot of smoke. They will sell because Intel sounds more appealing to people than ARM, simply.

[Magog]

That is why I say "if confirmed". Time will put everyone in their place. But if there is one thing they know how to do, it is processors. Let us remember that they had the XScale, which they later sold to Marvell and which were the best at that time. I still have a Dell Axim 51V (pity its 64 MB of RAM).

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