Intel says 'Medfield' smartphone coming early next year

17.05.2011

Intel's more competitive phone and tablet chips won't appear until 2013 and 2014, when the company expects to introduce new 22-nanometer and 14-nanometer manufacturing processes. The figure refers to the smallest features etched into the chips, and smaller transistors use less power.

Intel hadn't planned to introduce those manufacturing processes so soon, but it's to improve its competitiveness. The more advanced processes will also make possible extremely thin laptop computers at mainstream prices, Perlmutter said.