Intel’s new mobile phone chip is surprising in many ways, but the biggest surprise is its speed.
Evaluation site Anandtech, in the International Consumer Electronics Show, Intel announced code-named Medfield Atom Z2460 chip, far more than some of the fastest phones on the market. If the Intel-based mobile phone to achieve the performance as the Anandtech claims, it will become best-selling products like the Apple iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
Anandtech said, “In the SunSpider test, the performance of Intel’s Medfield reference platform we tested were higher than any other smart phones, including running the Ice Cream Sandwich’s Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S.” Even if the Medfield run Ice Cream Sandwich, test results were not with major changes. Anandtech noted that in BrowserMark test, Medfield reference platform “score with the Tablet PC very” over the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S.
Another surpriing was that all of these were completed by a CPU core. Analysis of the performance tests results showed that Intel’s Medfield has a real competitive advantage.
Intel is also developing code-named Silvermont Atom chip, using 22-nanometer manufacturing process, which can provide for the smart phone equivalent mainstream notebooks performance. 14-nm process, codenamed Airmont Atom chip will provide better performance.