Intel versus ARM for the mobile computer
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Intel will always have AMD to worry about in the PC business. In the mobile world, however, it's shaping up a little differently.
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Clock unlocked Intel has apparently announced its long-awaited mobile Core 2 Extreme gaming processor. It's a dual-core chip clocked at 2.6GHz and with 4MB of shared L2 cache.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - A mobile version of Intel's Core 2 Extreme chip will hit the market during the third quarter in high-end gaming notebooks equipped with Nvidia's SLI graphics system. "You're going to see an extreme version of Merom on the notebook with Nvidia SLI in the third quarter," said Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's sales and marketing group, during an interview. Merom is the code name forÂ Intel's current line of mobile chips. Maloney announced the upcoming chip during a keynote presentation at the Computex exhibition, which started today in Taipei. "It's going to be for a hardcore gamer who values performance over anything and my suspicion is that you're going to see them in 17-inch [notebooks] and above, but we'll see," Maloney said. "At the Santa Rosa launch, there were 21-inch notebooks introduced." Combined with Nvidia's SLI technology, which uses two graphics chips instead of one, notebooks based on the chip are intended to replace high-end desktops used by gamers. This is the first time that Intel has developed a high-end mobile chip for gamers. Previously, the company's products for this market where designed for desktops, although that didn't stop Asustek Computer from shoehorning a Core 2 Extreme desktop chip intoÂ its C90 notebook, which was unveiled at Computex. "The notebook business is getting to be a big, big, big business and it's splitting out into multiple segments," Maloney said. Next year, Intel plans to offer mobile chips that often even more performance for gamers. At the Intel Developer Forum held in Beijing during April, the company revealed plans for a quad-core mobile chip to be released next year for gamers. That chip will be based on Penryn, a family of 45-nanometer chips that Intel plans to release later this year. Â
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(InfoWorld) - Global mobile phone makers including Taiwan'sÂ High Tech ComputerÂ are already testing new processors from Qualcomm with which the chip manufacturer hopes toÂ challenge IntelÂ in the market for ultramobile PCs and mobile devices. Qualcomm has already started sending out SnapDragon chip packages to developers so they can see what kinds of devices might be made around them. The ultra-low power consumption of theÂ Scorpion processorÂ they contain could enable a whole new breed of mobile device, said Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, on the sidelines of a news conference in Taipei. The microprocessor currently being sampled is a 1GHz chip that uses between 250 milliwatts and 500 milliwatts of power, he said. Intel's best processor for ultramobile PCs is A110, which runs at 800MHz and uses 3 watts of power. The SnapDragon chip set also contains a 600MHz digital signal processor, and offers connectivity to mobile broadband technologies including CDMA2000 (Code Division Multiple Access 2000), 1xEVDO (Evolution-Data Only), HSDPA/HSUPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access/High Speed Uplink Packet Access), as well as mobile TV, Bluetooth, GPS (Global Positioning System), and WLAN (wireless-LAN). The company is gunning for Intel's business with the new chips, but it's tough to compare processors made by the two companies. Scorpion is an Arm-based processor and has its own instruction set, which offers substantial energy savings but does not share the main advantage of x86 chips made by Intel: software. A lot more software has been developed around the x86 instruction set than any other processor, in fact, the entire library of software for PCs. Alongside Intel's 800MHz A110, the company offers the 600MHz A100, which also consumes 3 watts. Rival Via Technologies recently announced an x86-based processor that runs at 500MHz and consumes up to a maximum of 1 watt, or 0.1 watts in idle mode. The 1GHz version of that chip,Â the Eden ULV, consumes a maximum of 3.5 watts. Still, device makers have a chance to try out SnapDragon now, and its low power consumption and wireless functions could aid in the development of new categories of mobile devices. Â
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Intel's new Centrino platform and 45nm fabrication process, AMD's innovative new CPU design and hints from both companies about quad-core mobile CPUs mean the mobile chip wars are hotter than ever.
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There&#39;s been a fair amount of debate recently about whether AMD or Intel is winning the ever-present chip arms race. Based on the experience of this year&#39;s Intel Developer Forum (IDF), I&#39;m not sure that Intel can still claim to be in the lead.
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New Quad FX Platform gives Advanced Micro Devices an answer to Intel's quad-core PC chip, but in a piecemeal fashion.
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Chip-making technique to fuel AMD64, PowerPC, 'Cell' production
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By Prasanna Raman  INTEL Corp's second-generation mobile dual-core processor, the Core 2 Duo, is now available on laptops shipping with the latest release.
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Intel Korea on Tuesday released the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor 548, which targets the personal laptop computer market. The central processing unit can operate multi-media programs that need a high performance capacity, explained the company.
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Intel is betting on a big expansion of 'âultra-mobileâ' computing, an idea that depends on people being willing to tote around a portable device beyond their ubiquitous cell phones.
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How about an embedded processor that&#39;s designed to deliver a quantum leap in performance and system bandwidth while keeping power in check?
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Intel has added a high-end model to its range mobile processors. The Pentium M 765 is based on Intel&#39;s market-leading 90nm manufacturing process technology and features 2MB of integrated, power-managed Level 2 cache.
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Advanced Micro Devices&#39; new Mobile Sempron processor gives the company a fresh chip for the holiday season, but it probably won&#39;t help it overcome the solid advantage that rival Intel holds in the notebook market.
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The next great mobile hope for Linux, the Neo1973, has arrived. Wired News has a first look at the most promising open source alternative to the iPhone.
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A new version of the Pentium 4 aimed at the &#39;desktop replacement&#39; market has been introduced by Intel. The snappily named Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 548 supporting HT Technology runs at 3.33GHz and is
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ARM will demonstrate&#160;Google&#39;s Android&#160;on an early prototype device at&#160;Mobile World Congress&#160;in Barcelona next week, one of several demonstrations of the mobile platform that will occur at the conference, Google said Thursday.ARM spokesman Stuart Gill confirmed in an interview that ARM would be conducting the demonstration of the Android platform, but refused to elaborate.&quot;ARM will be demonstrating Android on an early prototype device to show how the platform works on their processor,&quot; Google spokesman Barry Schnitt said in an e-mail. &quot;There are a number of other companies that will be demonstrating Android on their hardware in various forms at Mobile World Congress.&quot; He would not name the others, however.Schnitt added that Google was &quot;very excited about the momentum building behind the platform as demonstrated by the number of companies that are supporting it with their technology.&quot;Google also released&#160;a link to a video&#160;showing the early prototype device.It is logical for ARM to be developing in the Android area, since it designs Linux-based CPUs for mobile phones, as well as CPUs based on other types of operating systems. ARM is the predominant CPU platform for mobile phones globally, said Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates in Northboro, Mass.Since ARM is already building with Linux, it would not be difficult for the company to put Android on top of the Linux in a phone, Gold said. He said ARM might be doing the Android development on behalf of another company, perhaps a device manufacturer.ARM, however, is not listed as one of the founders of the&#160;Open Handset Alliance,&#160;which was led by Google and includes more than 30 companies.Gold said he would expect several manufacturers to show prototypes of phones or handheld devices in Barcelona, either in private suites or on the show floor. Motorola, HTC, LG Electronics, Motorola, and Samsung Electronics all make phones and are part of the OHA, he noted.HTC and T-Mobile also are planning to offer phones based on open-source Android this year, the companies have said.For Gold and others, the real question is not whether companies can show off products, but whether they will work. &quot;Anybody can show a phone, but how rock solid will it be?&quot; he asked. He expects demonstrations by half a dozen companies of Android devices before July, with phones shipping by year end.A report that surfaced earlier this said&#160;Dell and Google would also show an Android phone&#160;in Barcelona next week. But that report was quickly&#160;refuted by bloggers&#160;and others.One industry insider, who asked not to be identified, said it was unlikely Dell would produce an Android phone partly because it is not in the OHA. But neither is ARM and could be working from the Android developer&#39;s kit, or with another vendor, the analyst noted.Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.&#160;