Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has opened up its architecture to Indian companies with which they can build applications on them.
Further, the company is wooing smartphone-makers to push more Intel inside in their devices. For the same, Intel has opened up its processor architecture that will help companies build applications specific to their requirements, which is a departure from the past when companies did not have the flexibility to do so.
“We have relooked at our chip design process and as a part of this, we have embraced an open architecture like Apache-Hadoop,” Srinivas Tadigadapa, Director – Enterprise Sales, Intel – South Asia, told
One of the reasons that Intel is doing this is due to increased competition from ARM and others whose chips are widely used in smartphones, tablets and other devices. This coupled with a slowdown in PC uptake and the growing number of Internet-connected devices has prompted Intel to have a relook.
“Globally, there will be 15 billion devices by 2015, out of which four billion will be smartphones and 11 billion other sorts of Internet-connected devices such as watches, wearable computing gadgets and the likes,” said Tadigadapa.
New strategy In line with this strategy, Intel’s Quark System on a Chip (SoC) X1000 is the first product from the Intel Quark technology family of low-power, small-core products. This, along with its Atom E3800 processor, which goes into smartphones and tablets runs on the SoC architecture.
SoC is an Integrated Circuit (IC) that integrates all components of a computer or any other electronic system into a single chip, which makes processing faster. For Intel, which has its eyes set on into growing areas – from the Internet of things to wearable computing in the future, the Quark technology will extend Intel architecture faster compared with its traditional ways of distribution, according to Tadigadapa.