Nokia ’s move to the Windows Phone osmium take the “ wind ” out of potential volume sales of Intel smartphone chip this year , but the scrap maker has moved on , Intel CEO Paul Otellini say this week .
Intel is now redirecting resources to recruit other wireless carriers and phone makers to adopt its upcoming broken - power Atom smartphone check code - discover Medfield , Otellini said on a conference call Tuesday .
Intel was hoping to see smartphones with its chips starting in the 2nd half this twelvemonth . Otellini said he would be disappointed if Intel - ground phone were not available in 12 months . He did not point out on the smartphone companionship Intel was pursuing , but analysts on Wednesday said that the crisp maker could be prosecute belittled regional phone makers , and perhaps larger speech sound makers such as LG .
Intel has had no success so far in the smartphone space . The company currently offers a low - baron Atom smartphone bit code - named Moorestown , which has found no adopters . Intel and Nokia last year partner on the exploitation of the Meego O for mobile devices , but Nokia in February vacate the OS to establish a future smartphone strategy around Microsoft ’s Windows Phone oculus sinister . Windows Phone OS does not work on Intel ’s chips , and Otellini sound out the crumbling of the partnership has squeeze Intel to go after other company to adopt Medfield .
Intel send a lot of imagination to Nokia around the Meego OS , but now has to restart efforts to get raw customers to adopt Medfield , psychoanalyst said . That could delay the launching of Intel Inside smartphones , but machine will eventually add up . However , the success of such devices in a market dominated by ARM processor remains a question mark , analysts said .
Intel could chase small vendors in developing market place where smartphone shipments are exploding , read Jack Gold , chief analyst at J. Gold Associates . Smartphone shipment are rise in countries like China , where companies such as ZTE and Lenovo are establishing a larger mobile presence .
“ It ’s one thing to pardner with Nokia , it ’s another affair to partner with [ smaller vendors ] , ” Gold said . Major vendors such as Nokia fetch volume shipment worldwide , while the belittled trafficker may put up a sluggish entry for Intel into the smartphone market .
LG is a major vendor that has show interest in the Meego oculus sinister and could adopt Intel ’s Medfield cow chip , Gold said . Intel has virtually no presence in the smartphone market , and can only go up , Gold say .
When the Medfield central processor is deliver , Intel will vie with ARM , whose humble - power processors go into most of the humanity ’s smartphones today . ARM processors are see more powerfulness effective than Intel ’s Atom , which have been deduct from microcomputer chips .
There is no doubt that an Intel - based smartphone will be uncommitted , but the question is whether it will be successful , pronounce Dean McCarron , principal psychoanalyst at Mercury Research . With Medfield as an former - multiplication chip , it may not be sluttish for Intel to make an impingement in the smartphone marketplace , McCarron said .
“ It ’s not an easy market to get into and it ’s not a market Intel has been in , ” McCarron said .
subdivision govern the smartphone market and Intel has to develop its smartphone processor faster to make an impingement , McCarron enounce . Most of the computer software is written for the ARM computer architecture , which has been written from the ground up for smartphones . Intel is scaling down the geometry of its potent personal computer chips to fit into smartphones , but its only a issue of fourth dimension before Atom matches ARM on office white plague , McCarron said .
Medfield will be made using the 32 - nanometer manufacture mental process , and the company in the future will make smartphone chips using the 22 - nm outgrowth . reduce the geometry will make chips faster and more ability efficient , analysts said .
But beyond a continued cycle of scale down the sizing of chips , Intel ’s Otellini argued that Intel ’s vantage over ARM will be a robust computer architecture that can scale and a wider raiment of communicating capability . Intel earlier this year acquired Infineon ’s wireless sectionalization , and has said it will implement technology develop through the acquisition , such as 3 G and 4 K radios , inside succeeding Atom chips .
“ In terms of X86 versus ARM , it ’s not just about the core as much as we would like it to be , and I approximate as much as ARM guys would care it to be . It ’s about the core , the overall capability of the system on chip , the thing you put around it — the graphic , the [ communicating ] subsystem , the medium processing subsystem and the overall mightiness gasbag relative to the operation that you could turn in of the SOC , ” Otellini said .
Otellini said Intel will also have a potent position in the smartphone mart because of support for multiple operating systems such as Meego , Google ’s Android , and Microsoft ’s upcoming Windows OS . The operating organization going in front will have much better transversal - platform sustenance , and it will be easy to move from ARM to Intel or ARM to ARM , especially with Windows .
“ I ’d also point out that all of the major operating systems in smartphones are pen at a mellow grade such that they are hybridisation platform and portable , ” Otellini said .
