Intel Shows Off Merrifield Chip For Breakthrough Into Smartphones
Bangalore: Intel, the largest chip manufacturer in the world, on Tuesday, at Computex, a computer expo held annually in Taipei, Taiwan, showed off its Merrifield chip. It is the first ever chip by Intel to equip with LTE technology, and the chip is to offers better performance and battery life than current Atom chips. Intel also launched its fourth-generation Core processors for PCs, formerly code named as Haswell.
The Merrifield will be a 22-nanometer, ultra-low power Atom chipsets for tablets and Smartphones based on its "Silvermont" microarchitecture. It will "deliver increased performance and battery life" and incorporate an integrated sensor hub, which Intel said will enable the delivery of personalized services and better security protections on handsets, reports PCMAG. The chip is due to ship to carriers and device makers early next year.
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