Intel sees more and more future in the market of portable devices, a good example being the recently launched Atom CPU family and the Moorestown platform, designed especially for portable devices, uncovered last year. The new platform has only been a concept last year, but at this year's IDF a really working Moorestown-based internet tablet prototype has been displayed. The soul of the device, based on a longish touchscreen, is an SOC (System-On-Chip) solution codenamed Lincroft, which has a 45 nm CPU, memory controller, graphical core, multimedia accelerators and the wireless communication device (supporting WLAN, Bluetooth, HPA, WiMAX, GPS and mobile television reception) all one one board. According to Intel the platform requires tenth the energy of current platforms and the first commercially sold device is to be launched by the end of 2009 or early 2010.
Translated by Szaszati