Moorestown Launch Takes Intel Tentatively into Smartphone Market

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On 4 May 2010, Intel announced the next generation of its Atom processor-based platform, formerly known by the code name of Moorestown. It succeeds the first-generation Atom-based platform, dubbed Menlow. Moorestown consists of three major components: the Z6xx Atom processor system-on-chip (SoC) family, formerly known as Lincroft, the Intel Platform Controller Hub MP20, formerly known as Langwell, and a mixed signal integrated circuit formerly known as Briertown. The Lincroft processor uses Intel's 45-nanometre process technology while Langwell is fabricated at 65 nanometres. The platform boasts processing speeds up to 1.5 GHz for mobile phones and 1.9 GHz for tablets.

Intel claimed numerous significant improvements in power efficiency and performance on rich media and Internet applications with Moorestown. These include a number of order-of-magnitude advances in idle and standby efficiency enabled by new "fine grain" operating system techniques for power management.

Moorestown precedes the forthcoming 32-nanometre Medfield platform, which consists of a single integrated SoC. Intel has indicated that Medfield will be available in sample quantities in 2011.


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