According to the Liliputing website reported that Intel announced this year will stop the development of the intelligent mobile phone chip, a new generation of chip to cancel the original plan for the tablet computer and in the development of PC. Intel will develop a modem for smart phones, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, smart home appliances and other networking devices, low-power processors and other products.
But from now on, with the outside world is different, Intel may not give up the mobile processor.
In an interview with the PCWorld, the president of Intel client and networking Department Kata Glenn (Venkata Renduchintala) of Jinta pull said the company to stop system development "several mobile piece, I think it is not enough to draw the conclusion of intelligent mobile phone processor Intel to give up".
"This does not mean that we will no longer develop mobile platforms," he said. In the mobile platform, our strategy is to do more than less. There is a need for products to be announced when we announce."
Liliputing said that Aaron comment is not pull of Jinta admit Intel plans to release a system for intelligent mobile phone, tablet computer and similar equipment in the low-end tablet, but Intel does not seem to rule out this possibility.
What is the possibility of not being excluded? ARM design for future chip license. Intel's next smartphone processor may not be a x86 chip, but a similar to most Android phones and iPhone processor chips.
It should be noted that the degree of tension is in response to the question of whether or not Intel will license the ARM design of the above comments. If Intel wants to compete in the smartphone world, it will be a way to use the ARM processor.
When smartphones began to rise, most of the use of ARM based low-power processor, then, even the lowest energy consumption of Intel processors, in the use of smart phones is too high.
Over time, Intel began to provide more energy-efficient chips, ASUS Zenfone 2 and other mobile phones in the performance is quite good. However, the deployment of smart phones Intel chip sales has been very small, not enough to attract developers to spend a lot of time to optimize their software for this platform. Even if Google and Intel announced a joint Android optimization program for Intel in 2011, Intel recently announced that it would delay the development of X86 for mobile phones.
Intel is currently talking about entering into new areas that can provide significant growth opportunities, such as the Internet of things and smart cars. In the notebook and desktop sales seem to stagnate (and may even decline), Intel's move is very important. At present, even the smart phone market growth is slowing. Liliputing said, however, after all, the smart phone is a huge market, Intel intends to get involved in this market, and even the introduction of other companies based on the design of the processor is not surprising.