Comments on: LG first to tap Intel's 'Moorestown' chip for smartphone

The successor to Intel's current Atom processor will be part of a collaboration based on Intel's silicon and the Linux Moblin v2.0 software platform.

[slickuser]

ARM sucks!

[chrisfrary]

Wait, so it's x86? I don't want a x86 in my phone. Say goodbye to battery life. I want an ARM in my laptop and I'll run linux for that battery life.

[paradoso]

Kumar's statement "The ARM architecture (used by Qualcomm and Texas Instrumets) is not very scalable in terms of performance" is simply not true...and neither is "...they expect to drop that (with Moorestown) by a factor of 10."

Please don't lose the strong credibility you already built- quote more credible sources in the field- Linley, Modoff, Griffin, etc.. (to name a few analysts).

[michaelmolin]

Really good news. I have a project for Intel's Moorestown platform:

The Cell PC

http://geocities.com/genetechnics

[kbdude]

As referenced in the article... if the Atom chip power numbers can be scaled down to compete with ARM based chips... then Intel really has something.

An Atom chip consuming ~ 1 watt of power.... and X86... is very compelling. I would have a full PC universe in my hands... and not simply a smartphone.

Seems like Intel is putting there hats into the handset CPU business. Moorestown is only 45nm. third generation Atom should be on 32nm..... 32nm allows reduced power consumption numbers & lower cost.....that is full convergence of the PC world into the cell phone.