Intel Announces New Atom SoC ''Tunnel Creek''
Intel today unveiled a new System-on-Chip dubbed Tunnel Creek that is aimed at in-car entertainment systems, media phones and printers.
Intel has detailed its plans for 'Tunnel Creek', the Atom-based System-on-Chip it's working on for phones, printers and in-vehicle entertainment systems. According to UMPCPortal, Tunnel Creek comes in 600Mhz, 1Ghz and 1.3Ghz variants, all of which offer hyperthreading and Intel's VT virtualisation technology, and the TDP for the platform is 5W.
Intel also announced a partnership with Chinese auto manufacturer, HawTai. A HawTai executive was on hand to reveal that its new B11 luxury sedan would incorporate Intel's Atom processor and the company's open-source MeeGo platform in its in-vehicle-infotainment systems.
"With an infotainment solution that utilizes the Intel Atom processor, we are leveraging the well-established and latest Internet technologies, and re-using existing software that has been developed on MeeGo based Linux platform," said Mr. Wang Dian Ming, vice chairman of HawTai Automotive. "It saves us application development costs, and enables new services to be introduced quickly with high reliability."
Last but not least, China Mobile had an executive there too and he announced Intel would help China Mobile's next generation wireless network infrastructure to help move the carrier into a 'compute and cloud' model.
"China Mobile has been researching a new Radio Access Network architecture that is intended to provide our broadband wireless network the benefits of world class energy efficiency, reduced total cost of ownership, and high performance, while having the flexibility to allocate infrastructure resources to varying network load conditions," said Dr. Cui Chunfeng, manager of wireless research labs, department of wireless communications, China Mobile Research Institute. "To accomplish this vision we want to utilize Intel architecture in our next generation infrastructure, and tap into the flexibility, scalability and fast rate of innovation of using a software-defined architecture."

Marketing Director: "Where did you go this past weekend?"
Sales Rep: "The wife and I road up to Yorktown"
Marketing Director: "Got any other traveling planned?"
Sales Rep: "We're planning on going to Tunnel Creek in a couple weeks"
Marketing Director: **LIGHT BULB "IN HEAD**
Marketing Director: "Where did you go this past weekend?"
Sales Rep: "The wife and I road up to Yorktown"
Marketing Director: "Got any other traveling planned?"
Sales Rep: "We're planning on going to Tunnel Creek in a couple weeks"
Marketing Director: **LIGHT BULB "IN HEAD**
LOL. Better than "Up a Creek (with no paddle)"
It's a 600MHz single core processor. Draw your own conclusions.
I'll be interested what they bring to the table - HyperThreading and VT could be interesting...
not to familiar with sarcasm???
I need my printer to virtualize another printer to print to it from wihin itself.
The obviosity levels are off the charts! (joke)
Still the same old question?
LMAO!!
I would love to have a computer in my car 8)
Actually Intel has a long history of naming new processors after rivers in California and other US states.
Not knowing how big or small river Tunnel Creek is the naming creek makes me think Intel has run out of rivers to get names from ..... that is A LOT of processors
Intel seems deranged. First they wanted to kill x86 with the Itanium because the instruction set was so bad, now they want to put it in GPUs (Larrabee), and phones. I think they need lithium more than silicon there, for their mental illness.
Polish it until it looks like something solid, and produce it in 30 different flavors.
why say it? the joke is old as hell and it gets voted down to -20 each time.
I think it's an internet way of communicating they're gay and looking for partners without being too open about it.
There's a lot of "Gayspeak". Crysis is one. Using terms like FTW (For the Win, how gay can you get?), Epic Fail (show me someone that thinks this misuse of the word Epic is cool, and you're looking at a flamer), "eye-candy", etc... So, basically, they're advertising to other people, without being so obvious about it. That's the best I can figure out. Why else would anyone be so lame as to say "Epic Fail" and think they are sounding cool? No one is that dorky. You ask a perfect question too. Why would anyone think they are being original, funny, etc... by asking if Crysis will play it? It's got to be Gayspeak to find others. What else makes sense?