Intel And Nokia To Collaborate For New Mobile Architectures
July 3, 2009 by Sanjay · Leave a Comment
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.
Read more about the latest development in the domain of mobile cell phones, here.
Intel Announces Further Push To MID At Barcelona Congress
February 19, 2009 by Sanjay · Leave a Comment
The ongoing Mobile World Congress at Barcelona has seen Intel announcing a further push to its MID product range. The mobile Internet devices (MIDs) are based on Intel’s hardware platform codenamed “Moorestown”, and software platform codenamed “Moblin”. The company has roped in LG Electronics for manufacturing the new range of products.
Intel MIDs are powered by its 45nm Centrino Atom processors, such as Z500, Z520, Z530 and Z540. They take advantage of the wireless broadband connectivity to provide internet surfing to their users. All features of the internet, such as Instant Messenger (IM), VOIP, hi-def audio and video, GPS-directions and maps, and of course, site-surfing and emailing become available to the MID user.
The product is run on Moblin, Intel’s version of Linux. The core of the software platform is built on the GNOME mobile platform, adding to it Intel’s extensions such as Clutter and GUPnP.
The Atom processor and the Moblin OS come together on a platform called “Moorestown”. This platform comprises a system-on-chip (SOC) which is codenamed “Lincroft”. Lincroft in turn comprises the Atom processor, graphics, memory controller and video encode/decode on the single chip. Lincroft also comprises an I/O hub codenamed “Langwell”.
Read more about the latest push by Intel to its MID products, here.
