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- AmyVernon, on 06/14/2009, -0/+18I'm surprised it's taken them this long...
- brandnewx, on 06/15/2009, -0/+13x86
- worbd, on 06/15/2009, -0/+12There's no reason for chip manufacturers not to go there. This market is gonna explode!
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+10Sweet. More competition is good. As smartphones become increasingly important in peoples' daily lives, more and more is being demanded of them.
Now if only someone could conceive a better, mass-produce-able battery... - joshthegreat200, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6With the way intel acted with PC CPU's useing illegal practices to kill AMD's ability to tell and make better chips, im not to happy with this..
Remember the story about AMD trying to give gateway 50,000 chips for free and gateway said they couldnt take them or else intel would stop giving them their "special" price on all their intel chips? Yeah.... Screw intel. - jman583, on 06/15/2009, -1/+6So there will be smart phones with the 86x architecture? Awesome!
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4breathe
- schrutefan, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3You can't deny their anti-competitive practices though.
- dbossnirvana, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3Well, say goodbye to most Smartphone chip manufacturers. If Intel wants the throne, it GETS the throne darn it!
- Fengpost, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3Intel is in for a tough fight, TI and Qualcomm are much much tougher foes in the mobile phone industry than AMD in the PC industry.
- aserer511, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2you can't just walk into a market and dominate. intel doesn't do integrated systems on this scale, and its not like they'll take a C2S and shrink it at lower wattage. there are unique power/instruction set/cache specs and protocols.
That said, I am sure they will make a strong offering - LiquidIse, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2I'm glad to see someone else who notes this. Intel remains a shining beacon of proof in the effectiveness of both R&D departments as well as the benefits of hiring lots of young engineers.
Anyone who cries "monopoly" at this company has never looked at the amount of money they spend a year (billions) on researching new technologies for their chips. - SteveMax, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2Intel had the ARM-based Xscale line a long time ago. They sold that line to Marvell years ago, and have been out of the PDA/smartphone market ever since.
The Xscale was never a "core" Intel product; it was their development of the ARM microarchitecture. The Atom is really their first real step in that market, taking their biggest strength, the x86 architecture (which is also their biggest weakness) to that market. And yes, this has taken much longer than it could have. - jman583, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2Anyone who cries "monopoly" at Intel has obviously never heard of AMD.
- fragMasterFlash, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1The dirty little secret here is that this is yet another x86 chip, which Intel expects everyone will want due to the extensive IP libraries available off the shelf (Intel Performance Primitives, Windows, etc). All of this existing IP is optimized for servers and desktops with boatloads of RAM so your memory footprint needs to be large in order to use it. With this generation of chips you are likely to see the power consumption of the memory subsystem surpass that of processor, which is likely to negate much of their claim 50x power reduction. So sayith this Random Internet Guy.
- MadHarvey, on 06/15/2009, -1/+2Smart phone, eh? I hope they realize that the will be cutting their target market roughly in half, since no republican will be able to figure out something called a "Smart Phone"!"
- zeth006, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
- pdethier, on 07/19/2009, -0/+1AMD is a really non-innovative company, I don't know why anybody would want them around.
- aserer511, on 06/15/2009, -1/+2god, i love how the mobile/pocket chip market is heating up with new entries from intel, via, nvidia and others! EVERYONE will win!
- Elranzer, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1I hope the article means RE-enter. Intel's Xscale ARM chip (before they sold it to Marvell) has been used in PDAs and smartphones for a while now.
- heedree, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1I agree, it's about time. Perhaps anti-trust concerns were holding them back?
- chongli, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1Hector Ruiz did more to kill AMD than anyone else.
- duewydo, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1This is going to be a very good thing. I cannot wait to see mobile devices with this kind of processing power.
- pdethier, on 06/15/2009, -3/+4Intel is an incredible company.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -1/+2care to tell us why
- klowngoblin, on 06/15/2009, -0/+0taken them this long? WTF are you talking about? do you know how many phones ALREADY had the intel Xscale CPU running at 640MHz?
even the HTC Universal from what? 4 years ago? had a 640x480 resolution with 3G front facing VGA video calling.
another phone is the HTC/O2 Atom - inactive, on 06/15/2009, -1/+1except for the embedded sysatems used on x86 all over the place, oh and oh yeah ram costs nothing.
- CharlieEllis, on 06/15/2009, -0/+0The Untied States is in need of the mighty intel involvement in smartphone chip set tech...
- bigredgpk, on 06/15/2009, -1/+1Um, didn't Intel make the ARM CPUs for Palm devices and others until it sold it's ARM devision. So it really entering the Market for a second time.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -1/+1x86 compatible phones. that is cool.
- Elranzer, on 06/15/2009, -1/+1No, Intel also makes ARM and other architectures besides x86. Did you forget Xscale already?
- kthoma22, on 06/15/2009, -1/+0Unless your a professor of computer engineering/science or work in the industry I am not to sure about your claim. Taking 1 or 2 classes on processors/computer architecture at the undergrad level does not count.
- kthoma22, on 06/15/2009, -9/+3Dear god please no x86 on smart phones.
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