Intel Medfield details revealed

Posted on Wednesday, December 28 2011 @ 20:19 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

TechPowerUp found more details about Medfield, Intel's upcoming SoC that intends to compete with low-power ARM chips. Medfield promises better performance than its ARM competitors, but power efficiency is still an issue.

There's currently a tablet prototype in Intel's labs based on this chip, which has the following specifications: 1.6 GHz Medfield SoC, 1GB LP-DDR2 (LP = low power) a WLAN/Bluetooth/FM radio chip of unknown origin, eMMC/micro-SD card slot and a 10.1" screen with 1280x800 resolution.

This prototype has been benchmarked using Android 3.x (Honeycomb), while the finished products will be on Android 4.x (Ice Cream Sandwich). In Caffeine 3 it scored around 10,500 points, while the competition scored:

- 7500 points (NVIDIA Tegra 2)
- 8000 points (Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260
- 8500 points (Samsung Exynos)

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