Intel announces 64-bit Merrifield and Moorefield mobile processors, signs new agreements with Lenovo, Asus, Dell and Foxconn

It looks like Qualcomm wont be the only chipset maker to announce 64-bit mobile processors at the MWC. Intel has unveiled its own LTE-ready, 64-bit Atom processors.

Upcoming Windows 8.1 tablets with Intel's Bay Trail processors

Alongside the release of Windows 8.1 next week, there will also be a new lineup of tablets powered by Intel's latest Atom chip code-named Bay Trail. These tablets which will be priced between $299 and $350, include the Dell Venue 8 Pro, Toshiba Encore, and the Asus Transformer Book T100. More models are expected to ship in the coming months.

Intel announces "Quark" processors for wearable devices

Intel may have fallen behind in the mobile market, which is currently dominated by ARM processors, but they have been slowly pushing their way back into our mobile devices. In response to the new wearable device boom Intel has unveiled its new line of "Quark" processors, which it plans to be used on smart watches and other wearables.

The Quark processors are going to be incredibly small, and powerefficient. According to Intel, they will be one-fifth the size of the smallest Atom processor, and it will use one-tenth of the power. 

BADA to be absorbed by Tizen

Back in January last year we reported that Tae-jin Kang, Samsung’s VP of Content Planning stated that his company was planning to merge bada OS with Intel’s Tizen. This merger came after Intel’s failed plans to merge their platform with Meego, which Nokia later dropped in favor of Windows Phone.

Intel announces dual-core Atom, and plans for future quad-core processors

Intel looks to be continuing on track to make a name for themselves as smartphone chip manufacturers. The company has announced their line of dual-core Atom (Clover Trail+)  processors. They are built using the 32nm architecture and known as the 2.0 GHz Z2580, the 1.6 GHz Z2560 and the 1.2GHz Z2520. Intel promises industry leaving performance with their hyper-threading technology and battery life which will match current high end devices. The company plans to transition to 22nm Atom SoCs late this year.

Intel Bay Trail Atom processor announced

Intel has announced a new Atom processor codenamed ‘Bay Trail’ which are aimed at tablets. These quad-core processors are built using the 22nm manufacturing process which offers high efficiency and low power consumption. In terms of performance, the chip offers nearly two-times what is offered on current generation Atom ‘Clover Trail’ processors.

Samsung confirms that they will release Tizen devices this year

Samsung has confirmed that they will release smartphones based on the new Tizen operating system in 2013. Google’s purchase of Motorola, has been seen as a potential threat for manufacturers like Samsung, which depends heavily on Android for the success of its brand. Samsung has since looks at its alternatives and merged its homebrewn BADA OS with Intel’s offering to make Tizen a reality.

As Tizen is an open source platform like Android it now has backing from Intel, Samsung, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo and the Vodafone Group which will give the devices running this platform an opportunity for success.

Intel developing their next-generation of Atom processors for tablet use

With ARM dominating the mobile landscape with its Cortex processors, other CPU manufacturers like Intel are looking into grabbing their own share in the lucrative market. Intel has already managed to include their Atom chipsets in devices like the Motorola RAZR i, but they are now setting their sights wider and considering a push into the tablet market.

Watch the Motorola and Intel Motoedge live event

It was last week that Motorola and Intel teased an upcoming event to promote something new. Following the Motorola On Display event, it was clear that a variant of the Motorola RARZ M would be introduced with an Intel based processor under its hood.

You can watch the unveiling of the new device in the following live stream of the Intel and Motorola Live video stream

Motorola and Intel tease September 18 event

Motorola and Intel have something planned for us on September 18 and they describe what's coming with “Edge-to-Edge” and “Speed”.

What we expect is Motorola’s first Intel Atom-based Android device. Do you agree ?

Intel planning to reduce power consumption by 41% on forth generation chips

Intel is hard at work on its fourth generation of Core series processors and they aim to focus on performance while improving power consumption. The new series code-named 'Haswell' will require only 10 watts of power compared to the 17 watts required my the existing lineup.

Samsung's BADA and Intel's TIZEN merge

Its not easy grabbing a place in a race dominated by Android and iOS. Now with Windows Phone trying to creep in between then, other mobile operating systems are being pushed back. Samsung has decided to merge it's bada OS with Intel's Tizan OS in hopes and improving it's position in the mobile market.

Tae-jin Kang - Samsung's Senior VP of Contents Planning who revealed this information, also said that the apps developed for bada will work on Tizen and will be backward compatible with previously published apps. He also said that the two will eventually share the same developer interfaces and roots. By sharing the same SDKs and APIs the hope is that developers who create applications for BADA can also create the applications for Tizen. Samsung hopes to have more than one device running the combined platform available by the end of this year.

Asus to launch first UltraBook on October 11th

The Ultrabook is a concept from Intel which brings the Macbook Air like design to the PC world. Asus is getting prepared to launch their first Ultrabook and according to their Facebook Page it may be on October 11th.

Ultrabooks like the UX21 will finally bring a MacBook Air competitive design to the Windows platform. The Asus Facebook page points towards an event in New York on October 11 and an Asus website which says "Good Things come to those who wait" with a picture and reference to an Ultrabook, along with a counter counting down towards the said date.

Intel Atom now supports Android

The Mobile market is booming and the processors for mobile devices are primarily dominated by ARM. So much so that Microsoft which has only supported the x86 architecture has added ARM support to Windows 8.

Intel has now planned to offer support for Android 2.3 Gingerbread on it's ATOM (E6XX) Series of chips in an attempt to win over manufacturers to it's own mobile CPU offering by January 2012.

Intel introduces Ultrabooks

Today Intel announced a new class in laptops called UltraBooks at Computex 2011. These new breed of laptops which are meant to directly compete with Apple's MacBook Air will offer longer battery life, are less than an inch thick and priced under $1000. Intel is confident that by 2012 the Ultrabook will make up 40 percent of the consumer laptops sold worldwide.

Intel Ultrabook announced

Today Intel announced a new class in laptops called UltraBooks at Computex 2011. These new breed of laptops which are meant to directly compete with Apple's MacBook Air will offer longer battery life, are less than an inch thick and priced under $1000. Intel is confident that by 2012 the Ultrabook will make up 40 percent of the consumer laptops sold worldwide.

Intel Meego Tablet - Hands On

If you are following the tech news over the past several month, you would probably know about Nokia and Intel merging that merging their mobile platforms to create Meego. Check out the hands on video with Intel's Meego Table