Intel is the company everybody knew because of processors that still power the everyday PCs and laptops. But the sales of PCs and laptops has been outdone by the sales of smartphones and tablets. People are moving on and portable devices are the new thing. Intel has been producing chips for the smartphones and tablets, but it hasn’t earned much of a consideration from the manufacturers who seem to be more than content with ARM based SoCs. Intel has to fight hard to survive this battle and looks like they are having another go at the smartphone and tablet market in the upcoming MWC 2014.
At MWC 2014, a lot of smartphone manufacturers are expected to showcase their new products and Intel will be present there showing off its new series of tablet and smartphone SoC trying to lure the manufacturers to produce handsets with their SoCs. In terms of architecture, the smartphone and tablet industry on the whole is clearly dominated by ARM chips and Intel has to do something to gain a share.
At the MWC 2014, Intel is expected to be launching a couple of processors for tablets and smartphones under a relatively unheard of “Merrifield” brand which uses the Silvermont architecture. According to the leaked roadmap, one amon the two chips will be for the growing industry of Android tablets. The other chip will be the 64bit Bay Trail SoC. Also, Intel is expected to refresh the Bay Trail-M processor in March.