14 DAY TRIAL // After just yesterday we reported about Intel’s Android tablet plans for the upcoming Medfield SoC, the chip giant has now released some new info about this future Atom CPU that covers mostly its performance when running Google’s mobile operation system.
This info was presented in a slide showcased by Intel at an investor conference which was recently published by the AnandTech website.
The slide covers both the power and performance aspect of the company’s reference smartphone design based on the Medfield SoC and compares that with some other handhelds running the Android OS.
Intel was careful to remove the names of the devices in the chart, but even so it becomes apparent that Medfield will be competitive with today’s system-on-a-chip devices based on ARM processing cores.
Particularly interesting are the power consumption graphs provided by Intel, which place Medfield in the middle of the pack when it comes to stand-by power consumption, while in audio and video playback it fares even better.
Furthermore, performance also seems to be on par since Intel shows Medfield as being the fastest of the SoC devices tested both in browsing and graphics.
Sadly, at this point in time there, isn’t that much info about the chip available outside of the fact that it will be Intel’s first true system-on-a-chip device to hit the streets.
The good news however is that Intel plans to reveal many more details about Medfield at the upcoming CES 2012 fair where it will also showcase a series of devices based on this processor.
"We expect products based on these to be announced in the first half of 2012," says Stephen Smith, vice president of Intel's architecture group in a recent meeting with the Technology Review website.
