Hands On Intel’s Latest, Bestest Stab at Mobile Processing

The Medfield codename invoked unknown Cloverfield associations for me . Would Intel ’s first serious mobile cow chip be a monster that demolish absolutely everything in its path ? Well , the dust has authorise , and we have the Atom Z2460 . It ’s not go to crush everything else , but it looks all-fired decent .

Atom Z2460 is a single core , hyper - threaded , processor running at 1.6GHz . The 1.6GHz clock - speed should make it fast , and the hyper - threading means it should multitask like a champ . Intel wanted to balance speed with index consumption , meaning this Saratoga chip would n’t be the unspoilt of either world , but they were shooting for very good in both . Intel ’s rep literally said to me , “ We ’re not snuff it to be the best , not going to be the worst , but we believe we ’re endure to be competitive in the high - end smartphone category . ” This has acquire to be the most refreshingly honest delivery I have ever , ever hear . Indeed , there ’s no way this affair can stand up up to the quad - core CPU add up from Nvidia and Qualcomm , but it seems right up there with most of the two-fold - cores we ’ve seen .

Intel put itself together a nice little reference good example with a 4 - column inch screen , an Imagination 540 Graphics Engine , Intel 6260 HSPA+ modem , and the usual bevy of accelerometer , sensors , yada yada yada . It was presently lead a stock version of Android 2.3 , and they ’re already working on put Ice Cream Sandwich ( Android 4.0 ) on it . This telephone set will never come in to grocery store ; it ’s just to give us a flavour at what this chip can do . So , how does it do ?

As you may see in the video , it did pretty well . Graphics played very smoothly in the game and the screen was nice and reactive . There is a scrap of lag when scroll around the homescreens , and it sure as shooting seemed perceptibly slower than say the dual - core Exynos central processing unit in the Galaxy S II . Not speculative , not near . The battery in the reference phone was a 1,460mAh , and they articulate it would get eight minute of voice margin call , five hours of web browsing browse , or fourteen days of standby . I ’m a wee bit skeptical on that front , but we ’ll just have to wait and see until they put this in a U.S. phone .

Intel has been work with Lenovo who will be bring a smartphone sometime in the first half of 2012 , but alas , it ’s going to be China - only . Fear not , they are also declare an extended partnership with Motorola who will be launching multiple phones and tablets with Intel chip for sand . The first of these devices will be landing in the U.S. sometime in the second half of 2012 .

finally , people have express worry that introducing yet another buffalo chip computer architecture into the Android ecosystem will only increase fragmentation , with some pop apps being inappropriate . I was assured by Intel that this would be a “ non - government issue ” . Joyful joyful . Welcome to the mobile secret plan for real , Intel . Now get out there and make some coolheaded bull !

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