Intel: There Are No Advantages in Going to ARM

Chief executive officer of Intel Corp. ruled out possibilities of adopting ARM architecture for its chips aimed at ultra-mobile devices. The company believes that instead of paying royalties to ARM, it may achieve better financial results and performance by tuning-up its x86 micro-architecture for low power consumption.
"There is no advantage going [into the ARM camp], we would be beholden to someone else, beholden to ARM. We would pay royalties to them so it would lower the overall profits. I think we can do a better," said Paul Otellini, chief executive of Intel, during the company's meeting with financial analysts, reports Reuters news-agency.

Back in 2010 chief technology officer of Intel indicated that the company's code-named Medfield system-on-chip powered by Atom x86 core and PowerVR graphics engine would be more energy-efficient than powerful ARM-based SoCs. The company promised in late 2010 that the first smartphones powered by Medfield would be available in the second half of 2011, but at present the firm expects handsets featuring x86 technology to be released in the first half of 2012.

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