Lincroft is the ‘system on chip’  that powers Moorestown, Intel’s next-gen Mobile Internet Device platform. CPU, GPU, video decode hardware, video encode hardware [Note: Try finding that on the average laptop. Justin.tv needs to watch closely!] and 2D video hardware. Langwell is the comms silicon that connects Moorestown to all the peripherals that are required in a Mobile Internet Device. Its the USB bus, the audio bus, serial, video, etc etc. Think of Moorestown as the bare motherboard which comes pre-loaded with Lincroft, the combined CPU, Northbridge and video […]

No prizes for guessing what company said that! ZDnet highlights it with "Intel slams ‘slow’ iPhone ARM CPU."  Gizmodo follows up. Engadget too (along with a lot of comments) and now it’s reached the front page of Techmeme. Oops! I’m all behind Intel for their work in squashing the X86 architecture down to smartphone-sized levels with Moorestown and there’s an element of truth in the fact the the iPhone is underpowered for Internet apps but the way I see it is that it’s not really about CPUs anymore and as […]

Many others have written about it. NYTimes. ARS Technica, Liliputing, GearLog are just a few. This taken direct the article at Small-Laptops. Jobs on netbooks: “As we look at the netbook category, that’s a nascent category. As best as we can tell, there’s not a lot of them being sold. You know, one of our entrants into that category if you will is the iPhone, for browsing the Internet, and doing email and all the other things that a netbook lets you do. And being connected via the cellular network […]

I heard late-yesterday from Intel that the Compal MID was coming to France and was just waiting for confirmation to post the news but I need wait no longer as Stuff Magazine have done it for me. Pocketables have just picked up the story and it makes interesting reading for all of us that are frustrated at the progress in the MID department. We knew that SFR would carry the Archos 5G and my guess at the unsubsidised cost was between 400 and 500 Euro. It turns out that SFR […]

I got an email from a regular reader this morning and it was interesting to read thoughts that so closely echoed my own. It centers around frustration at the lack of MID hardware on the market so on a day where we’ve seen a lot of MID-related software announcements, it seems right to talk about the lack of hardware. I wrote last month about the delays and said I would re-visit the issue at the end of October but I’m sorry to report that nothing much has happened. Sure, the […]

SUSE-Moblin for MIDs and Netbooks? Another Linux software distributor has announced that they will contribute towards the Moblin stack. Novell, who has the SUSE Linux brand, made an announcement yesterday (although I can’t find anything on the Novell press pages.) Novell announced today that it will participate in and contribute to the Moblin open source project. Novell will start immediately contributing to Moblin’s specific sub-projects, such as its desktop compositing manager and multimedia abstraction layer. As a result of Novell’s participation, Moblin will be able to leverage Novell’s large community […]

Gameloft, the French company that develops for mobile platforms, has announced that they will be taking on the Moblin software stack and will be porting some of their games to it. The press release (not currently on the Gameloft website) states "We see the use of MIDs as a perfect platform to allow consumers to enjoy the attributes of Gameloft games to the fullest," said Alexandre Tan, Gameloft’s Business Development Director. "Intel Atom processor based MIDs offer the rich gaming experience our customers expect when on the go. Being X86 […]

  Brad over at Liliputing has put together a nice list of 13 netbooks (wouldn’t you figure that 5 of them are Eee PCs) that can be bought for $399 or less. Brad mentions that the initial goal price for the original Eee PC was $299, but in reality ended up at $399 when the devices first started shipping. While we might be looking at the same price as that original Eee PC that launched over a year ago, the power and quality (and number of choices) has increased substantially. […]