Cooperation with Google

Cooperation with Google
Intel promises Atom androids and solar chips

Alliance of IT giants Google and Intel will jointly roll up the market
for smartphones. The companies want to bring Atom-chips and Android
software. But Intel thinks it a step further and showed a microchip in
California for sunny days.

The market for smart phones and tablets are booming - and just the
world's largest chip manufacturer Intel has been here barely grasp the
foot. For years, attempts to serve the company, mobile phone
manufacturers its mobile processors. Most recently, the company had
teamed up with Nokia to develop smartphones based on Intel processors
and the Linux operating system Meego. But Nokia has been unfaithful to
his partner Chip, turned to Microsoft. Now Intel is trying again. At the
developer conference Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco
announced Google and Intel to collaborate in the future to match
Google's Android operating system on Intel's Atom chips.

Intel tries to connect to the Google-cooperation against the established
competition draw. Previously sharing companies like Qualcomm, Texas
Instruments, and nVidia on the market for smartphone chips among
themselves. These manufacturers supply more fuel-efficient and
simultaneously more powerful mobile chips, which are generally based on
the architecture of the British firm Arm.

To catch up with these dominant companies, Intel has adjusted the
schedules for the development of new Atom chips to the development plans
for desktop and server chips. Intel developers to work faster than
before. The company has in mind by the Moore's Law, described 18-month
period within which the integration density of chips doubles, to reduce
by half. Say: The number of components on chips is expected to increase
faster in order to deliver more power with less energy expenditure.

A success in terms of energy economy became apparent at the conference:
Intel CEO Paul Otellini introduced a processor that obtains its
operating power from solar cells. To run it on a Windows-equipped
computer, the light should be enough of some of the ceiling lamps.

Even if the project is still under development, that it follows the
company line, the energy consumption of electronic devices to reduce
continuously, Otellini said. A solar-powered in this way Pentium-series
was even six months ago have not been imagined.