Intel is showing off a tablet prototype with a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Medfield processor and Android 4.0 operating system.. The tablet is a pre-production unit from Lenovo called the IdeaTab S2110 and to be honest, it looks nearly identical to any of the dozens of 10 inch Android tablets we’ve seen over the past year. That’s not necessarily a…

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Intel is preparing to launch its first Atom chips aimed at smartphones and tablets. The new processors are based on the Medfield platform, and while Intel has been teasing the low-power system-on-a-chip platform for years, the company has been pretty quiet about hte actual specifications. Now the folks at VR Zone have published some of the first specs and benchmark…

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Intel is finally getting ready to launch chips for phones and tablets that could compete with ARM-based processors in terms of performance and power consumption. The company has been working on its next-generation Atom design, code-named Medfield, for a few years. But now Intel is starting to demonstrate reference devices based on the platform. The MIT Technology Review got to…

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Last month Intel announced that it was stepping up the pace of development for its low power Atom processors so that they would keep in pace with the company’s mainstream chips. Right now most Atom processors are 45 nanometer chips, but soon we’ll see 32nm and smaller chips, leading to more efficient processors. CNET got a little more information about…

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While Intel is busy pushing its next-generation Cedar Trail chips for netbooks and tablets, the company also has a lower power chip code-named Medfield which is designed for phones and tablets. Mefield is a 32nm platform which Intel says is designed for fanless devices which weigh less than 1.5 pounds and which are less than 9mm (0.35 inches) thick. It…

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Intel is stepping up the pace on development of next-generation Atom chips. While the company has dominated the netbook space with its line of low power Atom processors for the last few years, the growing tablet and smartphone markets are currently dominated by low power ARM-based chips. Intel has been working to reduce power consumption of its chips while increasing…

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Intel is moving ahead with development of its low power processor lineup. Next year the company will produce chips designed under the Pineview codename built using a 45 nanometer process. But we already knew that. Here’s the new stuff: CNET reports that Intel has given the codename of Medfield to the next version of the Atom processor. Medfield will be…

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