March 3rd, 2008

Intel ‘Atom’ To Power Android Phones?

Intel have today unveiled the new ‘Atom’ brand range of low-drain processors. Previously running under the codname ‘Menlow’, the newly branded ‘Centrino Atom’ range will use the Core 2 Duo instruction set and get clock speeds up to 1.8GHz.

The processors, which use an architecture completely revamped for efficiency, are designed for PDA-sized Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and what Intel calls a new class of affordable, infocentric mobile computers Intel is calling netbooks.

It is purely speculation at this point as to whether these new chips will be used in Android hardware, but with Intel not currently working on any other mobile chip sets and given their position in the Open Handset Alliance it doesn’t seem too unlikely does it?

[via ComputerActive]