Intel-based smartphones coming this year

During a keynote at the Mobile World Congress, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that a number of models of smartphone was launched this year by using the company's processors. The company seems to be very optimistic about his upcoming smartphone, dubbed core Medfield, but so far it remains resorted to potential partners or any additional information beyond saying that time is a "pretty exciting" for them.

Otellini sees the emergence of Tablet device and smartphone as an opportunity for Intel and not a challenge to his commanding lead in the CPU market. According to the CEO, tablets and smartphones will live alongside the PC, and this will allow them to send even more processors than the hundreds of millions that currently ships. "We don't see an environment where one machine meets all requirements. At least for the next four or five years, we are likely to see more devices and form factors more simply because people want to do things better, "he said.

Intel has been virtually absent from the fast growing smartphone market so far, but the company hopes to change that with its impending Medfield chips, which are allegedly ordered to outclass ARM in processing and saving. The company shall prove his bold claims with real products, and with the arm that currently holds close to 90% of the mobile market through licensing agreements, convince hardware vendors to embrace Medfield will not be easy.