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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AMD Mobility Radeon 7000 Series Leaked Before 2011

Shortly after finishing off the top-order of its Radeon HD 6000 series desktop discrete graphics processors (GPUs), AMD is letting out information about its first line of GPUs built on the 28 nanometer fabrication process. The first products carrying the Mobility Radeon HD 7000 series brand identifiers are notebook GPUs in the MXM 3.0 form-factor. AMD is planning an entire lineup top-to-bottom to address almost all mobile computing market segments. At the very low end of course would be its Fusion accelerated processing units with GPUs embedded. On top of that is what follows.

The lineup begins with "Wimbledon", an ultra high-end mGPU. It has a 256-bit wide high-speed GDDR5 memory interface, 2-4 GB of dedicated memory, and 65W TDP. The DirectX 11 GPU will be about 25% faster than "Blackcomb", the Mobility HD 6000 series flagship. This is slated for Q2-2012. Next up is the high-end "Heathrow" mGPU, which has a 192-bit or 128-bit (selectable between variants) GDDR5 memory interface, 1-3 GB of dedicated memory, up to 45W TDP, and 30% higher performance compared to "Chelsea". This is slated for Q4-2011 (this should tell you that Radeon HD 7000 series will be in existence towards the end of 2011).

Going down, there's "Chelsea" itself, with its 128-bit GDDR5 memory interface, 1-2 GB memory, 20-30W TDP, performance 30% higher than "Whistler", production starting in Q4-2011. Lastly, there's "Thames". This mainstream mGPU will have 128-bit GDDR5 with option of GDDR3, 1 GB memory, 15-20W TDP, and 100% higher performance than "Seymour", Radeon HD 6000 series' mainstream mGPU. Production for this starts in Q4-2011, as well.

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