Intel is using Mobile World Congress to ramp up its efforts to capture a larger share of the mobile market.
The vendor has launched a 64-bit Atom chipset, unveiled an LTE-Advanced platform and announced multi-year device deals with Lenovo, ASUS, Dell and Foxconn.
At a news conference, Intel president Renee James launched its new “Merrifield” SoC, a 64-bit chipset with a dual-core 2.13GHz processor.
The company plans to follow this up with the launch of “Moorefield”, a quad-core Atom processor for Android devices, in the second half of the year. Moorefield will support core speeds of up to 2.3GHz.
James also unveiled Intel's 2014 LTE platform, the Intel XMM 7260, which introduces capabilities including carrier aggregation, Cat 6 speeds and support for TD-LTE and TD-SCDMA.
The company has meanwhile signed multi-year agreements with Lenovo, ASUS and Foxconn to develop Atom-powered smartphones and tablets.
Intel and Dell have also agreed to expand their tablet collaboration to cover the development of more Android and Windows tablet devices.
Finally, James revealed Intel has entered an expanded partnership with Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco to accelerate the development of SDN and NFV technologies.
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