Intel Announces New Atom SoC ''Tunnel Creek''
Intel today unveiled a new System-on-Chip dubbed Tunnel Creek that is aimed at in-car entertainment systems, media phones and printers.
Intel has detailed its plans for 'Tunnel Creek', the Atom-based System-on-Chip it's working on for phones, printers and in-vehicle entertainment systems. According to UMPCPortal, Tunnel Creek comes in 600Mhz, 1Ghz and 1.3Ghz variants, all of which offer hyperthreading and Intel's VT virtualisation technology, and the TDP for the platform is 5W.
Intel also announced a partnership with Chinese auto manufacturer, HawTai. A HawTai executive was on hand to reveal that its new B11 luxury sedan would incorporate Intel's Atom processor and the company's open-source MeeGo platform in its in-vehicle-infotainment systems.
"With an infotainment solution that utilizes the Intel Atom processor, we are leveraging the well-established and latest Internet technologies, and re-using existing software that has been developed on MeeGo based Linux platform," said Mr. Wang Dian Ming, vice chairman of HawTai Automotive. "It saves us application development costs, and enables new services to be introduced quickly with high reliability."
Last but not least, China Mobile had an executive there too and he announced Intel would help China Mobile's next generation wireless network infrastructure to help move the carrier into a 'compute and cloud' model.
"China Mobile has been researching a new Radio Access Network architecture that is intended to provide our broadband wireless network the benefits of world class energy efficiency, reduced total cost of ownership, and high performance, while having the flexibility to allocate infrastructure resources to varying network load conditions," said Dr. Cui Chunfeng, manager of wireless research labs, department of wireless communications, China Mobile Research Institute. "To accomplish this vision we want to utilize Intel architecture in our next generation infrastructure, and tap into the flexibility, scalability and fast rate of innovation of using a software-defined architecture."
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And you'd need this in your car because?
Also, if you need virtualisation why use an Atom!
hyperthreading would be interesting in a phone, soon enough we'll see multiple cores in phones XD
hyperthreading would be interesting in a phone, soon enough we'll see multiple cores in phones XD
Damn that really would be interesting to see. I'd personally like to see a mobile come out with movie playback ability but connecting the a tv/monitor. Think about it, long distance coaches can have small screen fixed into the back of the seats so people can watch movies from their phone, on a decent screen. Sure some may say "Hey but what about netbooks? They can do that too!" well here I'm saying for a guy that just has this mobile and doesn't stay lugging about a laptop/netbook/tablet computer.
Maybe I'm thinking over my head here or just outright stupid but I think if an epic battery was to be added to the mobile (or the coaches allow charging on the go?) that'd be an epic, innovative idea that could have someone sitting on the cash piles.