Intel processors for tablets and smartphones - plans for the near future


    Intel aims to increase the productivity of mobile CPUs by 5 times, and their graphics subsystem - by 15 times in the next two years. In order to achieve such ambitious results, the company is revising the release schedule for the following processors for mobile devices, as it became known from the statements of Intel's management at the conference for investors last Thursday.

    In early 2014, the first productive smartphones on a chip codenamed Merrifield will appear. The chip has 2 or 4 cores, created using a 22-nm process technology. By the end of the year, it will be replaced by a Cherry Trail chip on the Airmont core with a new generation of integrated graphics - the first 14nm Atom. In turn, the successor to Cherry Trail in early 2015 will be an even more productive and efficient Broxton chip based on the Goldmont core with a completely new modular design that makes it easy to add additional functionality by attaching individual components to it.



    At the end of 2014, a Sofia chip with an integrated 3G communication core will be released for the budget segment, which will be replaced by an LTE core in 2015. It is emphasized that the communication core also uses x86 architecture.

    If you compare the above plans with those published earlier, then you can understand that the timing of the launch of new products has been reduced, and the strategy for their promotion looks more aggressive. Even with a naked eye it is clear that Intel is throwing a breakthrough on the mobile front. Well, the results of this offensive will be visible in the very near future.

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