Will Medfield be the chip Intel needs to take on ARM?
- Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:00
Intel first started working on its "Bonnell" microarchitecture in 2004. The Bonnell design team was assigned the task of creating a small, low-power core that could be used in a variety of applications, such as in a many-core CPU or a low-powered Internet device. The team's focus was narrowed in 2005: aim for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and smartphones. MIDs first, with smartphones as an evolution.
Seven years later, Intel's Medfield platform built around the Atom Z2460 system-on-a-chip has scored Intel's first smartphone design wins, with Lenovo shipping a handset to the Chinese market within the next few months and Motorola Mobility shipping smartphones and tablets in the second half of the year.
