Intel has tied up with Nokia to develop a new generation of
devices that the pair claim will combine powerful personal
computing with ubiquitous mobile broadband.
Architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset
architectures will combine the performance of desktop computers
with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications and ubiquitous
internet connectivity.
Both companies are expanding their longstanding relationship,
enabling the development of a variety of innovative hardware,
software and mobile internet services.
The companies are working on a chipset platform architecture to
define a new mobile platform which they say is more advanced than
today's smartphones, notebooks and netbooks.
The collaboration also includes technology development and
co-operation in several open source software initiatives. They aim
to develop common technologies for use in the Moblin and Maemo
platform projects, which will deliver Linux-based operating systems
for these future mobile computing devices, Intel and Nokia
said.
Moblin is an optimised open
source Linux operating system project for the Intel Atom
processor-based devices, including MIDs, netbooks, nettops,
in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), and embedded systems.
Maemo is a Linux operating
system, mostly based on open source code, which powers mobile
computers such as the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. The Maemo
platform has been developed by Nokia in collaboration with many
open source projects.
Intel has also licensed Nokia's HSPA/3G modem technologies,
which it said would enable it to develop mobile computing devices
that combine 3GPP modem technology with future Intel
Architecture-based platforms.