After Intel Medfield, it will be Merrifield and 6331

The roadmap of Intel on the processors for smartphones and tablets gives us info on the fineness of engraving and the radio of these new chips part.

Our colleagues from SemiAccurate have laid their hands on the roadmap Intel processors coming to smartphones. We already know this generation with the Intel Medfield and its three references Z2460 and Z2580 or the Z2000, all three engraved in 32 nm.

SemiAccurate has obtained the names of the next two processors dedicated to tablets and smart mobile, Merrifield and 6331. The menu, the 22 nm for these two chips with a Merrifield coupled part radio of the skier, the Intel XMM 7260 that supports all transmission technologies current radio from GSM to the LTE.

For the 6331, also from the Intel R & D's radio part would be just as well off since it would be the Intel XMM 7160 that handles also the 2 G, 3 G up to 42 Mb/s and the LTE up to 100 Mb / s. The difference would be on the Bluetooth 4.0 support or energy management.

Intel is preparing already for the third generation of mobile processors under 14 nm lithography that will also be Haswell processors. Intel must now prove its solution compete with microarray under ARM in terms of performance and management of energy while offering attractive for manufacturers prices and of course his catch on the applications catalog, or an ARM emulator / x 86 worthy of the name to see the native x 86 applications flowered in the shops of apps of mobile operating systems.

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Intel Medfield: some news in x 86 mobile chips

Intel processor x 86 ultra fast and efficient energy, what invade the world of mobility by the large door?

ARM, the processor architecture that is imposed by mass in our mobile devices, such as our smartphones or our digital shelves. Low, offering more performance, these small SoC are now everywhere, what begin to shake giants like Intel smelter which would well a place in this market (its Atom x 86 there is being did not place).

And although, according to the scientific journal of MIT Technology Review, processors x 86 dressed for the mobile age would be on the show, and perhaps even at the CES in Las Vegas next January. According to the magazine, tests seem conclusive with the Android operating system equipped with mobile devices and offer good performance over the top three chips mobile of the current market. These Intel chips, named Medfield, also have a consumption well below what is currently on ARM, without to give precise figures, still under NDA.

We therefore look forward to learn more and to know the performance of such chips integrated into mobile terminals. Processors that may also have their interest with the release of Windows 8, even if the new OS from Microsoft will be proposed in the ARM version for the first time.

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