Intel presentation promises Medfield-based smartphones by 2011
by Donald Melanson 
posted May 17th 2009 at 7:21PM
We've been hearing about Intel's Medfield processor for some time now, but much of the talk so far has been about it being an Atom-replacement for netbooks and MIDs. A seemingly recent Intel presentation obtained by the folks at UMPC Portal is now shedding a bit more light on the matter, however, and it's looking like smartphones could actually be at the heart of Intel's long-term plans. As you can see above, and in the complete presentation at the link below, Intel sees its base of devices getting larger and larger as its processors get smaller and more power-efficient, and it looks like "mainstream smartphones" could become a reality as soon as 2011. That's due largely to the 32nm manufacturing process used for the smaller Medfield processor, which also makes uses a smaller board size that leaves more room for keypads, batteries and whatnot. Of course, we are still talking about Intel predicting the state of devices two years out, so who knows how things will shake out in the interim.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
hobs0n @ May 18th 2009 5:46AM
Sounds wonderful! Maybe I can get my future dream phone, a phone with 4.5-5 inch screen with a CPU thats powerful enough to run some tweaked smaller version of windows on it :) With ofcourse some 3D rendering and good movie playback :)
Proto732 @ May 18th 2009 2:22PM
Funny how Intel sold off Xscale to Marvell and got out of mobile (phone) chips business a few years ago (2006), and now here they are back again.