Intel And Nokia To Collaborate For New Mobile Architectures

Santa Clara, California-headquartered Intel Corporation and Espoo, Finland-headquartered Nokia Inc have announced technical collaboration that will lead to development of new architectures for mobile cell phones and devices, going beyond the present generation of smartphones, notebooks and netbooks.

The new class of mobile devices will be based on Intel’s chips and processors, and be based on open source mobile Linux software projects. For this purpose, Intel has agreed to acquire the license for Nokia’s patented HSPA/3G modem IP. This decision will enable the company to extend chipset solutions which Nokia’s modem technologies.

From Intel’s point of view, the new collaboration is an extension of its Moblin platform. Moblin is an open source Linux flavor based on Intel’s Atom CPU, and targeted for applications such as MIDs, netbooks, nettops, in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and embedded systems.

From Nokia’s point of view, the new collaboration will give strength to its Maemo platform. Maemo too is a Linux flavor, and is the base for Nokia’s products such as N810 Internet Tablet.

Besides converging on Moblin and Maemo, the companies will also align themselves on open source technologies such as oFono, ConnMan, Mozilla, X.Org, BlueZ, D-BUS, Tracker, GStreamer, and PulseAudio.

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