IntelAtomZ6xxMoorestown. PRESS KIT - Second-Generation Intel® Atom™ Processor-Based Platf. Intel’s next Atom chips are powerful, but not power hungry | Ven. In a bid to move beyond the PC, Intel is announcing a new generation of its Atom microprocessors today that can become the brains of smartphones and tablet computers with high performance and long battery lives. The new chips can get by on 50 times less power than previous Atom chips and provide twice the computing power of similar devices in the market today. The message for consumers: if you’re impressed with performance of Apple iPhones and iPads today, you haven’t seen anything yet. The gains in performance and power efficiency are pretty astounding.
With these new Atom Z6xx series chips, smartphones could run at 1.5 gigahertz and still have an idle time battery life of 10 days. Smartphones using the chips could run video for four or five hours before running out of battery. They could run music for two days straight and run smartphones with screens that are 3.8-inches diagonally. Intel has very high hopes for the market. Pricing for the chips hasn’t been disclosed. Intel Begins Selling Chip Low-Powered Enough for Smartphones - B. Intel Z6xx smart-phone processor prototypes: Moorestown massacre. Intel Unveils Moorestown and the Atom Z600, The Fastest Smartpho. When I wrote my first article on Intel's Atom architecture I called it The Journey Begins. I did so because while Atom has made a nice home in netbooks over the years, it was Intel's smartphone aspirations that would make or break the product. And the version of Atom that was suitable for smartphone use was two years away.
Time sure does fly. Today Intel is finally unveiling its first Atom processors for smartphones and tablets. Welcome to Moorestown. Craig & Paul’s Excellent Adventure Six years ago Intel’s management canned a project called Tejas. When a project gets cancelled, it wreaks havoc on the design team. The Tejas team in, er, Texas was quickly tasked with coming up with the exact opposite of the chip they had just worked on: an extremely low power core for use in some sort of a mobile device (it actually started as a low power core as a part of a many core x86 CPU, but the many core project got moved elsewhere before the end of 2004). Climbing Bonnell.
New Atom™ Processor Platform Using Significantly Lower Power Rea. Based on Intel's leading silicon technology and manufacturing capabilities, chips deliver >50x platform idle power reduction while increasing performance and reducing size1. Platform brings unlimited "PC-like" experience with fast Internet, multi-tasking, full 1080p video, 3-D graphics, multi-point videoconferencing and voice in pocketable designs.
New Intel® Atom™ processor Z6xx based on Intel's new 45nm2 low-power process, packs 140 million transistors into the SoC. The platform also includes a Controller Hub (MP20) and a dedicated Mixed Signal IC. Highly integrated platform capable of scaling a range of operating systems and market segments including high-end smartphones, tablets and handheld devices. The technology package provides significantly lower power consumption1 and prepares the company to target a range of computing devices, including high-end smartphones, tablets and other mobile handheld products. . * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Atom Gadgets: Intel unveils new #Atom pl... Steve 'Chippy' Paine: Intel and Google have been...
Steve 'Chippy' Paine: RT @Carrypad: Intel's Unve... Intel pushes moorestown tablets. FIVE MONTHS AFTER Intel announced a late 2010 start for the company's first Atom processor powered Moorestown system-on-chip (SoC) enabled smartphone, the LG GW990, the South Korean manufacturing company LG Electronics has apparently dumped the model. Intel's excuse for the evident abandonment of its first Moorestown based mobile is that smartphone testing takes a lot longer than wringing out a tablet design because you are making voice calls that have to operate across a range of telecom networks.
LG was not available for comment. Tablets are easier to test than phones because they are "just for data", Intel's ultra mobile group chief platform architect Ticky Thakkar told The INQUIRER. But the OpenPeak device that was shown at the Moorestown briefing in London on Tuesday, 4 May was not demonstrated. On 24 March, OpenPeak announced that its Moorestown powered tablet will be available with AT&T later this year. Intel Begins Selling Chip Low-Powered Enough for Smartphones - B. Intel shows off Moorestown Atom for smartphones | Mobile Devices.
Intel has detailed Moorestown, the ultra-low-energy version of Atom that the company hopes will take it firmly into the smartphone processor market. Moorestown, officially branded as the Atom Z6xx-series, was shown off in London on Tuesday. In its demonstration, Intel said the 45nm processing platform, formerly codenamed Lincroft, offered big power consumption savings over its predecessor, Menlow. According to Intel, at 21mW stand-by power consumption is 50 times more power efficient than Menlow, giving 10 days standby on a standard 1500mAh smartphone battery. A Moorestown device on the same battery could run audio continuously for two days, 20 times longer than Menlow, Intel said. In the demonstration, Intel's EMEA embedded marketing chief Rod O'Shea said Moorestown made Intel's technology competitive with ARM, makers of the architecture that underpins most handsets.
"We're clearly in that space now," he said. The chips will run at up to 1.5GHz in smartphones and 1.9GHz in tablets. Intel wades into smartphone fray. High performance access to file storage Intel has introduced its second-generation ultra-mobile Atom processor, and the chip giant is telling the world that its new offering is targeted directly into the heart of today's hottest mobile market: smartphones. Until this week, the anticipated market for the three-chip lineup known as Moorestown was floating unmoored between netbooks and smartphones, seemingly destined for that never-realized product category known as the mobile internet device, or MID. No more. Intel is positioning Moorestown as a smartphone world-beater. "Up until now, we haven't really talked about Moorestown as an entry into smartphones," Anand Chandrasekher, head of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, told a gathering of reporters in San Francisco on Tuesday.
"We've talked about it in other devices. Chandrasekher took direct aim at claims that Intel has missed the smartphone boat. Intel launches chip for smartphones, tablets | Nanotech - The Ci. Intel on Tuesday announced its long-awaited Atom chip for smartphones and tablets, a crowded market populated by a host of formidable rivals--unlike the PC market where it dominates. Previously known by the code name "Moorestown," the Atom Z6 processor series will "open the door" for Intel chips in the smartphone market, said Pankaj Kedia, director in the Ultra Mobility Group. To date, Intel's Atom has been used primarily in Netbooks, where it has been adopted widely by all major PC makers and been an unqualified hit.
"The specific focus of Moorestown is entering the smartphone segment but it also does very well, it scales very well in the tablet segment," Kedia said. The entire package of chips is composed of the Atom Z6 series system-on-a-chip and two accompanying pieces of silicon. "This time the Atom architecture was defined so it could (fit) into the high end of the smartphone segment," said Belliappa Kuttanna, chief Atom Architect.
But Intel's hallmark feature is performance. Tech Ticker | Intel announces Moorestown ready for high-end smar. Intel’s Atom-processor based platform, formerly known as Moorestown is now available to OEMs. The platform comprises of a System-on-chip (SoC), a controller hub and dedicated Mixed Signal IC (MSIC) that promises to provide high performance while consuming very less power. The platform has the 45nm-based Atom Z6xx CPU with 3D Graphics, video encode/decode support, MP20 Platform Controller Hub to support a range of system-level functions and I/O blocks and the MSIC to integrate power delivery and battery charging. As far as its performance is concerned, the platform consumes up to 50 times less power in idle mode or 2 to 3 times less while browsing or video, which means a single charge can give up to 10 days of standby and 4-5 hours of browsing.
Additionally, it supports full 1080p HD video decoding, 720p HD video recording, up to 3x more processing power, superior graphics and various connectivity options like Wi-Fi, 3G and WiMAX. Intel Atom frugal on power and phone partners | Tech Blog | FT.c. Intel Shows Moorestown Atom Phone Chips - But No Products | eWEE. Intel has shown off the next generation of its Atom processor range, known as Moorestown and designed for smartphones, but has not announced any partners with plans to build the chips into phones. Atom processors have done well in netbooks, but have not been adopted in smartphones, where chip designs based on ARM – such as the Cortex-A8 and Snapdragon – are inside all the leading designs.
The Moorestown version of Atom is supposed to change all that. Announced in early 2009, and previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, it uses a chipset design more appropriate for handheld devices, with more functions bundled onto the processor. However, despite promising Atom-based phones in the second half of 2010, Intel had no partners to announce at the launch of the new Atom. Indeed, one possible partner, LG, chose this week to make a point of saying its prototype Moorestown phone, the LGW990, shown at CES, will not become a production device. Intel Digs Deeper Into Tablet Market With Moorestown - PCWorld. Intel has set its sights on the burgeoning tablet computing market with its latest Moorestown chips, which the company believes will help break rival Arm's dominant position in the handheld device market.
The company on Wednesday announced a chip package based on the Atom Z6 series processors that will go into mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. The Moorestown chips will include a low-power single-core Atom processors that run between 1.2GHz and 1.9GHz, and graphics processor cores capable of displaying high-definition video. Intel, which is mostly known for its chips in PCs, previously sold handheld processors with its portfolio of Arm-based XScale processors, which it later sold to Marvell Technology in 2006.
Intel is now pushing its x86 architecture, which are mostly found in PCs, into the handheld devices with Moorestown. Arm has an early edge in the tablet market, with many top computer makers opting to use the company's processor designs to power tablets. Intel launches Moorestown mobile platform. Intel has introduced its next-gen Moorestown Atom platform for smartphones and tablet devices. The platform offers significantly lower power consumption compared to the first-gen Menlow package, while enabling seamless multitasking, HD video streaming and multi-point conferencing.
"Moorestown includes the Atom processor Z6xx ('Lincroft'), the platform controller hub MP20 ('Langwell') and a dedicated mixed signal IC (MSIC), formerly Briertown," explained chief Intel Atom architect Belli Kuttanna. "The platform has been repartitioned to include the Atom Processor Z6xx, which combines the 45nm Atom processor core with 3-D graphics, video encode and decode, as well as memory and display controllers into a single SoC design. " According to Intel senior VP Anand Chandrasekher, Moorestown delivers a 50x reduction in idle power, 20x reduction in audio power and 2-3x reductions across browsing and video apps.
Meet Moorestown: Intel's Atom Platform For The Next 10 Billion D. Intel’s second-gen Atom platform, Moorestown, positions the chip giant to have a killer smartphone and MID platform in 2010. The old Atom Z5xx drawbacks seem fixed. Why does Moorestown rock, and will it be enough to let Intel advance in this market? Imagine you’re running a 3DMark graphics demo at perfectly fluid frame rates.
Then imagine you’re watching 720p, 8,000 Kb/s video at a steady 30 FPS. And just for giggles, pile on a camera with a little videoconferencing app showing you streaming at the same 30 FPS. Now, imagine all three of those apps running with that level of performance on the smartphone in your pocket. Impossible, you say. Today, Intel goes public with its Atom Z600 processor series. The company invited Tom’s Hardware to its Austin, Texas ultramobility development center for a pre-launch peek at the platform that has until now been called “Moorestown.”
So buckle up and give your current phone one last gaze of admiration. Intel unveils Atom Z6 Moorestown CPU for smartphones. On Tuesday Intel announced a new low-power atom chip for cell phones that will further dismantle the distinction in performance between computer and mobile. Their new Atom Z6 CPU will mark Intel’s first legitimate attempt to break into a market largely dominated by UK-based ARM. Intel’s goal was to build a chip which delivered on the company’s legendary performance and also have enough battery to last through a typical workday. Pankaj Kedia, director of Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group said of the Z6 "When you look at Web page type of performance; for example: Java-script-rich Web sites. Specifically, how fast the Web pages load. Intel’s website lists the Atom Z6 Moorestown’s main features as follows: The chip has already been previewed in an LG Smartphone and a tablet by OpenPeak, but a public implementation is not expected to be announced until 2011.
Intel Unveils Next-Gen Moorestown Atom Processor Platform - HotH. A little over two years ago, Intel formally unveiled the low-power Atom processor and its related chipset and platform technologies. At the time, Intel's vision for Atom had the diminutive CPU powering a diverse line-up of mobile internet devices, or MIDs, web-connected tablets, portable media players, and handheld gaming devices. Suffice it to say, Intel's original vision for Atom didn't quite go according to plan. Yes, the chip found its way into an array of devices from video phones to set-top boxes, but by and large Atom has dominated the netbook market, a segment Intel didn't pay much attention to when it first unveiled Atom. Regardless of whether or not Atom found its way into all of the devices Intel had hoped, the original Atom platform--codenamed Menlow--was an undeniable success for the company.
Intel, however, had other plans for Atom, right from the start. Aava Mobile Moorestown-Based Prototype Smartphone, See It In Action Here. Mobile Wars: Can Intel's Moorestown take on ARM? The mobile market is currently dominated by ARM's nearly ubiquitous architecture. But Intel's Moorestown platform may herald the end of the beginning - rather than the beginning of the end - for ARM's mobile monopoly. Indeed, according to analyst Rob Enderle, Moorestown could theoretically pose a challenge to ARM if the platform manages to successfully power the next "in" device. "The mobile space will take a long time and a lot of money for Intel to penetrate. But, adoption of the Moorestown platform can be significantly accelerated if it powers the next 'in' device, one that people are actively chasing after and want," Enderle told TG Daily. "Yes, Moorestown may have a performance advantage - but the trick is getting people to want it.
However, Enderle emphasized that a Moorestown-powered device, if properly implemented and marketed, may be capable of eventually threatening the holy Apple-Google-ARM trinity. "Remember, people don't like moving to a new category of devices. Intel revamps Atom platform for smartphone push. Intel targets smartphones with new Atom chips. Intel reaches for the 'smartphone zone' with Moorestown-based At. New Intel Atom Z6xx To Power Handheld and Tablets. Intel Wrestles ARM For Smartphone Markets With Latest Atom. Intel Introduces Ultra-Low-Power Processor for Smartphones | Gad. Belli Kuttanna, the "god of Atom" speaks.