Intel are serious about getting into the mobile phone business with phones like the Orange Santa Clara. The Intel Atom Z2460 chipset how...
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Intel to stop work on MeeGo
If Intel stops work on MeeGo, the platform would be left much further behind compared to other popular platforms in the market. Intel...
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Monday, 5 March 2012
Intel Atom-packing Orange Santa Clara benchmarked
Intel are serious about getting into the mobile phone business with phones like the Orange Santa Clara. The Intel Atom Z2460 chipset however drew some ridicule for its single CPU core.
Early benchmarks show, however, that the single (but HyperThreading-capable) core packs a lot of punch. A lucky CeBIT visitor had a chance to run a couple of browser-based benchmarks, which are easier to access than dedicated apps.
The Santa Clara scored nearly 90K on BrowserMark, beating an iPhone 4S by a slight margin. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which uses the highly-optimized Android 4.0 ICS browser, scores over 100K on this benchmark, but the Santa Clara is still on Gingerbread and should see its scores jump after the planned ICS update.
Orange Santa Clara vs. iPhone 4S in BrowserMark
The Intel-based droid also posted some impressive scores on Vellamo. It managed to outpace the Galaxy Nexus and placed behind the quad-core Asus Transformer Prime and the dual-core Xiaomi Mi-One Plus.
Santa Clara's Vellamo benchmark
The Orange Santa Clara used for these tests ran Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread and its Atom CPU was reportedly clocked at 1.4GHz. Browser-based benchmarks are not the best at
pushing several CPUs to their limit (and much less when it comes to the GPU), but these are pretty encouraging results, especially with a dual-core Atom chipset on the way
Saturday, 3 September 2011
Intel to stop work on MeeGo
If Intel stops work on MeeGo, the platform would be left much further behind compared to other popular platforms in the market.
Intel's work on MeeGo may be screeching to a halt due to lack of interest from the partners.Digitimes reports that Intel is probably looking to temporarily stop work on its own operating system for some time, up to 2012, and will instead work on Android and Windows Phone Mango platforms.
The news about Windows Phone Mango is slightly doubtful since these phones currently work only on ARM processors. Microsoft has issued clear guidelines about what components its Windows Phone Mango partners are allowed to use, but then Intel has been a Microsoft partner for a long time so the possibility cannot be discarded completely either.
There have been no comments from Intel on the issue. Nokia, which had come with a MeeGo device - N9, recently has no plans to continue with the operating system. At such a time, if Intel also stops work on MeeGo, the platform would be left much further behind compared to other popular platforms in the market.
The original vision from Nokia and Intel is to develop MeeGo as an operating system which could work seamlessly across all the devices including netbooks, tablets to smartphones. Work on the MeeGo platform began in March 2010, and the two companies had also started a joint innovation centre to work towards the development of MeeGo. But Nokia changed course midway, and it shifted towards Windows Phone 7.
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