Lenovo
K800, the first smartphone to use an Intel chip, will go on sale in China in
late May
IDG
News Service - Intel is working with 10 undisclosed Chinese and global vendors
to design Windows 8 tablets using the company's chips, a senior company
executive said Wednesday.
"You'll
probably see many Intel-based tablets by the end of this year," Intel
China chairman Sean Maloney said while speaking at the Intel Developer Forum in
Beijing.
Maloney
made his comments as Intel has been working to expand its chip business into
smartphones and tablets. The company's newest Atom processor, the Z2460 and
also code-named "Medfield", is built for smartphones and tablets, and
promises to give high computing performance while also offering long battery
life.
The
Medfield chip will be used in Chinese PC maker Lenovo's K800 handset, the first
smartphone to use an Intel processor. The K800 will go on sale in China at the
end of May, according to Lenovo vice president Wayne Chen.
Lenovo
share of China's smartphone market last year was less than 5%, according to
research firm Canalys. The K800 smartphone is positioned at the "high
end", Maloney said.
Intel
is also developing another mobile chip, code-named Clover Trail, which is
designed for tablets and is scheduled to arrive this year. The chip features a
1.8 GHz processor, according to a slide shown during Maloney's speech.
Although
Intel is best known as a PC chip producer, the company has big ambitions for
the tablet and smartphone market, especially in China. "Our strategy in
China now is to win with smartphones and tablets. We are making progress on
it!" Maloney said during an online chat with Internet users earlier this
week.
Chinese
handset manufacturer ZTE also plans to launch a smartphone using Intel chips
during the second half of this year, according to Maloney.
Intel
is also developing two other Atom chips for smartphones. The Intel Atom Z2580
will offer twice the performance of the Medfield chip. The Atom Z2000 has a 1.0
GHz processor and is positioned for the lower end of the market.
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