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Intel and Nokia announce strategic mobile computing relationship
Intel and Nokia have
announced
a new strategic mobile computing relationship involving Linux.
"Further uniting the Internet with mobile phones and computers, Intel Corporation and Nokia today announced a long-term relationship to develop a new class of Intel® Architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures which will combine the performance of powerful computers with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications and ubiquitous Internet connectivity.
To realize this shared vision, both companies are expanding their longstanding relationship to define a new mobile platform beyond today's smartphones, notebooks and netbooks, enabling the development of a variety of innovative hardware, software and mobile Internet services."
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Intel and Nokia announce strategic mobile computing relationship Posted Jun 24, 2009 17:30 UTC (Wed) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]
There is another interesting tidbit in this announcement. Intel is licensing Nokia's 3G designs. Even though WIMAX is being deployed now, they seem to be hedging their bets against LTE. Or possibly they're working on merging the two wireless technologies; a soft-modem for wide-area wireless could be cheap and help sell even more Intel chips.
Intel and Nokia announce strategic mobile computing relationship Posted Jun 24, 2009 20:19 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Well 3G is _just_now_ starting to roll out to the majority of communities in the USA. Sure, sure that larger metropolitan areas in the country have had 3G things for a long time now, but remember that the vast majority of people (I expect something like 80%+) are mostly rural, small town, or suburban folks.
So Wimax and whatnot is years and years away for the majority of customers. I expect that Intel just wants to be able to create products (single chipset solutions, more then likely) that have integrated GSM/CDMA support along with Wifi and Bluetooth in order to lower costs for hardware manufacturers. Having to have a extra PCI Express port and device in order to do 'WAN' wireless networking is pretty expensive.
Intel and Nokia announce strategic mobile computing relationship Posted Jun 24, 2009 22:10 UTC (Wed) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]
What are you talking about? In the US, over 58% of people live in urban areas:
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