IDF: Intel rings Wintel changes for cellphone push
In the past week we've heard two announcements that will reflect on the relationship between Intel and Microsoft the coming months. One's all about a new market for the gruesome twosome: phones. And the other's about speeding up their aging offspring, the PC, Andrew Orlowski writes .
Let's take the second first.
Two Tone
Deep down Intel knows the mobile experience is truly horrible, and it wants to fix it. We want one" thick laptops which last all day, but the technology doesn't get us there. Intel can't, like Apple, simply define some standards in a quick half-hour meeting, and email them to the hardware division for implementation. It needs to coerce and finesse its OEMs to arrive at the same destination. (Apple's power management is terrific, but then it doesn't have to play by the ACPI rules).
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