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Rumors are circulating that Apple has rejected Intel’s Moorestown chips as unsuitable for their mobile device range, after Cupertino engineers decided that the Intel CPUs demanded far too much power. According to Fudzilla, Apple have informed Intel that Moorestown needs to have one-tenth the idle power consumption it manages currently before it’ll be suitable for any of Apple’s devices.
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Apple reject Intel Moorestown as too power-hungry?
By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 28th 2009 No CommentsIntel Moorestown Moblin v2.1 MID gets hands-on demo [Video]
By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 25th 2009 1 CommentIntel have rolled out plenty of mockups, conceptual art, non-functional prototypes and fancy slides over the past few months to show us what Moblin running on a Moorsetown-based MID might look like, but we’ve had to wait until IDF this past week to get a decent sighting of the platform in action. MID Moves sat down with an Inventec prototype running Moblin 2.1; you can see their hands-on video after the cut.
Video demo after the cut
Intel Moblin v2.1 mobile UI gets video demo at IDF
By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 23rd 2009 No CommentsIntel have been demonstrating their latest work on Moblin, the open-source OS they’ve been so instrumental in developing, including v2.1 of the user interface for handhelds and mobile devices. MID Moves were on hand to grab all the details, including a video demo of “MyZone”, Intel’s pulling together of calendar, news, social media and more.
Video demo after the cut
NEC pledge WiMAX support to Moblin-based PNDs and mobile devices
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 21st 2009 No Comments
NEC have announced that they will be supporting Moblin-based mobile devices and in-car PNDs with WiMAX functionality. The company already develops WiMAX mobile broadband modules and has recently unveiled a battery-powered WiMAX router; this new announcement will see Intel’s open-source Moblin OS get native support for the high-speed wireless technology.
Intel and Google in talks for Android MIDs?
By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 10th 2009 No CommentsGoogle and Intel are reportedly working together, regarding support for the Android platform on Intel-based MIDs. While that might seem slightly unusual – given that Intel has been heavily promoting its Moblin open-source platform for MIDs and netbooks – according to Taiwanese MID manufacturers it’s all part of the chip company’s plan to be “the hardware platform of choice”.
Intel “important announcement” to be Nokia MID?
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 23rd 2009 No CommentsIntel are about to announce a deal whereby they will supply Nokia with mobile processors, according to an anonymous Bloomberg tipster. The deal is expected to be revealed today in a conference call with Anand Chandrasekher, senior VP of Intel’s ultra-mobility group; Intel themselves have only confirmed that they have an “important announcement” to make.
MID sales just 15% of Intel’s predictions claim manufacturers
By Chris Davies on Friday, Jun 5th 2009 No CommentsWe’ve seen multiple Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) over the past week, as Computex brings the latest hardware out of the woodwork, but is the whole endeavor an exercise in futility? According to sources at manufacturers, sales of Intel-based MIDs have been just 30,000 units, far less than Intel’s own predictions of 150,000 to 200,000 units.
Intel buy embedded software experts Wind River
By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jun 4th 2009 No CommentsIntel have bought embedded software specialists Wind River Systems for $884m, in a deal that will see the firm assist in the development of Mobile Internet Devices and other non-traditional computing. Wind River are perhaps best known in open-source circles for their Android distribution; however the company also has its own OS, VxWorks, a real-time multicore operating system.
Intel announce five Moorestown MIDs for 2010 [Video]
By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jun 4th 2009 No CommentsIntel has announced five MIDs (Mobile Internet devices) which will use the upcoming Moorestown platform, including the 5-inch Inventec “MediaPhone” spotted yesterday. Now confirmed as the Inventec X3, the device is the largest of the five new MIDs, which include hardware from CCI, EB, Quanta and Aava Mobile.
Live Quanta M1 MID image and video demo after the cut
Intel Medfield smartphones tipped for 2011
By Chris Davies on Monday, May 18th 2009 No CommentsA recent Intel presentation has tipped the company’s upcoming Medfield processor as destined for smartphones, rather than merely as the Atom replacement for netbooks and MIDs that the CPU has so far been assumed. Intel expect “mainstream smartphones” using the 32nm Medfield in 2011, with the processor’s smaller board size and reduced standby power both making it suitable for compact devices.
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