Intel brandishes first Google Android tablet

Intel brandishes first Google Android tablet

Intel hauled out its no. Golem tablet pouring on "Medfield," an upcoming Atom dung for smartphones and tablets, piece two executives also chatted active their relationship with Google at the visitor's developer word today.

The Medfield Material counter is one of Intel's most power-efficient semiconductor designs--a unpermissive obligation for tablets and smartphones. It contains a safety processing core--as opposed to solon power-hungry dual-core Particle chips misused in Netbooks--and testament be ready in devices in the rank half of 2012.

The paper that Intel showed today (see image beneath) is a so-called meaning ornament that the assort leave give to tablet makers that would use it as a templet for their own product.

mportantly, Intel-based tablets and smartphones present be targeted at Google's Humanoid software, not Intel's inner MeeGo operative grouping. The latter has been relegated to moving and manual applications mostly and is no human seen as a auspicious operative method for consumer devices. To travel this doctor location, Intel reaffirmed its relationship with Google today.

CNET sat thrown briefly with two Intel phone executives to divulge some the relationship. The reaffirmation of the relation is about "optimizing Intel for the Golem papers for sound and for tablets," said Mike Painter, co-general manager of the sound division. "So, as a [design shaper] you'll be competent to go out and form a instrumentation with the rotund supplication and approving of Intel and Google," he said.

Intel has through an about-face of sorts. Its sound efforts had focussed hard on Nokia until that organisation prefabricated a striking exchange to Microsoft's Windows phone document. "We were real focussed on Nokia. Mike and I took over in Apr and got the set really focussed on the Automaton ecosystem," said Dave Whalen, the new co-manager of the sound separation.

Both Discoverer and Whalen include that Intel has some discovery up to do with consumer devices already out there using Honeycomb (tablets) and Gingerbread (phones).

So when will Intel-based phones be usable? "So, you'll see phones in the activity in the primary half of 2012. It gift be [Humanoid] Gingerbread then transitioning to Ice Remove Sandwich at the apropos time," said Whalen.

Medfield present be eminent by better graphics action and improved index efficiency, they said.

And what's coming next after Medfield? Neither would say, but they are pushing the program a lot harder. "We're employed very unmerciful to modify that roadmap since Dave and I took over."