Intel shows off Medfield mobile x86 processor for Android, and MeeGo tablet UI
Intel has had a string of nasty luck in 2011, with a Sandy Bridge chipset defect that’ll take billions of dollars to fix, and now of course, news of Nokia quite incontrovertibly backing out of their co-developed MeeGo ecosystem. While Intel probably doesn’t actually have a chip on its shoulder, its Anand Chandrasekher had a point to prove about Intel’s upcoming Medfield mobile processors, the Atom meant exclusively for mobiles.
[RELATED_ARTICLE]Promising never before seen battery life in an x86 mobile processor, the Medfield will also support the ARM-based Android OS.
In a separate event at MWC, Intel’s Mike Richmond also showed off the tablet-specific version of the MeeGo UI. The Nokia-backed shift for a unifying Qt framework has kind of left MeeGo and Intel stranded without C as an ecosystem – and for now, there was not much to see beyond four primary/native applications.