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Thursday, January 17, 2013

#CHIPS: "Embedded Switching to Intel Inside"

Intel claims that designers have begun switching to its Atom over ARM cores for their embedded designs, because of the extended battery life devices with Intel inside enjoy. To prove the point, Intel presented evidence that Motorola's Atom-powered RAZR smartphone has 18 percent longer battery life than the same phone with ARM inside: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLOg

Vice president and GM of Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group, Mike Bell, claims the ecosystem of mobile devices running on Intel technology are outselling ARM if you include Intel's Atom for Windows 8 along with single, dual and quad-core Atom systems-on-chip (SoCs) processors running Google’s Android.
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