Intel to enter into the world-wide smartphone arena

Seems like Intel is planning a showtime in the smartphone market too, by deploying tactics similar to those used in strangling down the PC market in the 80s and 90s. We didn’t get it just as a wild guess, but from Intel CEO Paul Otellini’s appearance at the International Consumer Electronics show (CES) at Las Vegas the other day.

Digging his words, we feel that Intel is planning to approach the smartphone market with a standard architecture pattern, which he mentioned as ‘smartphone reference architecture’ for smartphone devices.

It will help the users to have enhanced features along with the benefits like heightened security, better performance and longer battery life. It seems the packages from Intel will have more than just a processor for the phone makers to use. The pack will also have security scanning, data back up and restoration.

They have played the same move in the PC market joining hands with the Microsoft in the 90s, not just to shovel up a giant share of the market but also to make PCs more popular. Unlike, the PC game, Intel will have to make its architecture not just for Microsoft platform but for other players too.

Well, the first move in the tactics is to push their Atom processor to the smartphone architecture. The first rig stuffed with an Atom, manufactured by Lenovo and dubbed Lenovo K800 is expected to roll out in the Chinese market soon. Well, the company plans to hatch out similar smartphone with Motorola Mobility, by Q2 of this year.

We have also learnt that Intel wants to prove that their products like ultrabooks can co-exist with tablets in the market. As per the prototype displayed by the CEO, Intel is planning to make ultrabooks or portable computers with both keyboards and touch screens.

The prototype looks like a clamshell device, but that the display can be folded over the keyboard so that it will function as a tablet. Well, Intel is optimistic about their hybrid concept, though we are not.