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Thanks for the article.

Sounds too good to be true!! I wonder if they can really in the real world outperform the speediest ARM chips in a category ARM is good at...mobile.Because its said that some benchmark tests are favourable to some companies.

Also power consumption will play a more important role in mobile than on desktops or even laptops so it remains to be seen how medfield does in power consumption.

Holy Cow!!! That little chip on his finger, has the CPU, RAM and storage all on the same die? WOW!!! How much storage though?

If that is true, then imagine how fast it will be?

And since Microsoft already has the largest relationship with Intel, I would hope Windows Phone will be the first to start using it...Windows 8 tablets too. If so, then ARM is going to have a huge battle that they will likely not win in a couple years.

This is amazing technology. Intel is showing they aren't playing. Being behind doesn't mean you are completely out.

karthiq, on 29 December 2011 - 12:26 AM, said:

I agree. But I would say for something this small, Intel won't have a problem meeting the power consumption issue.

Didn't I read that Medfield is a spin-off of the Atom platform? The Atom if it could meet the power consumption would also ne a good solution if it wasn't just coded for x86.

I am amazed at the fact that they got all 3 systems on the chip together. And look how small it is. As long as it doesn't overheat, it should be awesome. And getting a Windows 8 tablet with this chip with a version of Windows that still can push desktop apps, ARM is going to get killed. And is I am not mistaken, even tho MS is working on an ARM version of Office, it can't do what the x86 version can. So this could really be an explosive option for tablet makers.

Have you had a chance to see Android x86 in action?
Give it a try - http://androidspin.c...-in-virtualbox/

Still early stages but looks good. if Intel can polish it up and make it like the ARM version is, Intel will help sell more tablets and Android tablets will eventually start ripping into Apple's market with iPad. And once Windows 8 comes, unless Apple makes a move to put OS X on a tablet, the iPad will simply just be the toy it already is that fans can't see because there isn't anything better to compare it too.

This post has been edited by QUADICON: 29 December 2011 - 08:53 AM

QUADICON, on 29 December 2011 - 08:30 AM, said:

You DO realize that the ARM chip in your phone uses very, very similar designs, and is also a SoC?

This post has been edited by waldojim: 29 December 2011 - 12:07 PM