Intel Medfield Phones Selling Only in Limited Numbers
Intel is reportedly preparing a more aggressive push for its smartphone processor architecture, as demand apparently has been rather limited at this time and vendors apparently believe that the company isn't able to compete with ARM at this time.
According to Digitimes, Medfield is currently available in the Xolo 900 phone in India, in the San Diego phone that is sold by Orange across Europe, as well as the Lenovo K800 in China. ZTE will add a device for Chinese market in the second half of this year and Motorola is expected to follow suit over the next few months.
Despite Intel's aggressive approach to drive Medfield into the market, there have been only limited shipments of Intel-based high-end and maisntream smartphones, Digitimes said, and phone vendors are not expecting this situation to change anytime soon. They anticipate that 22 nm and 14 nm version of the SoC may do much better than the current 32 nm Medfield product.
While Intel claims that Medfield is much faster than competing ARM products, it will be an uphill battle to gain footing in a market that has been dominated by ARM products, and in a market that is characterized by existing business relations between ARM processor vendors and handset makers. However, it may be rather common sense that Intel has not leveraged its manufacturing superiority enough to pitch Medfield to phone makers. It may, in fact, take two more processor generations until Intel can establish credibility and vendor connections to be able to succeed.

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I appreciate Intel's desire to get into the game, but they can do waaaay better than this, given their reputation and their financial power. Not to mention the lack of promotion, even worse than WinPhone.
The intel soc even being single core trounces the various dual core arm socs and comes close to the quads. The gpu preformance is alot more varied. Battery was average if i recall correctly.
The intel soc has an arm converter built in if i recall correctly so you can run most non x86 android apps if the built in andriod translator doesnt take care of it already.
All in all its a fairly solid offering and i look forward to seeing what comes out of both companies because of it.
Will have to look at these benchmarks; still, you seem to agree with a lot of what I said, just put it in different words. Forgot to mention the lack of promotion that is plaguing this platform. If it was promoted more, maybe they would sell more and get a fetter foothold in the market. With an availability on only 3-4 networks in the whole world that's not going to happen. Push the thing across the globe and people will notice it, even if means taking a financial hit - that's why a big company like Intel can afford to do that and they should have taken advantage of it.
Take a look at TI's OMAP and NVIDIA's Tegra. Snapdragon-based android smartphones outnumber all the other competitors combined by almost 8:1. Even Samsung used a dual core Snapdragon S4 SoC in the Galaxy S3 rather than their own quad-core Exynos. If these ARM heavyweights are still lagging behind Qualcomm SoCs I doubt Intel's "half-of-what's-required" would even make news.
Device manufacturers are all trying to cut costs while slimming their devices down. If Intel's next x86 smartphone chip doesn't pack everything in like the Snapdragon SoCs do then they clearly don't know or have what it takes!
http://www.xolo.in/xolo-x900-specifications
Also, it's only been a month or two since the phone's launch here in India. Rest of the world's hardly seen it. Sales seem to be picking up here, and their marketing campaign's been picking up. They're sponsoring the Euro telecasts for one, so the ads are pretty frequent.
AnandTech has benchmarks for the Xolo X900, they've had it since april, and ffs it's the same as any other medfield phone.
22nm will be very, very interesting. couldn't come soon enough. I also want to see WP 8 on Medfield, see if it behaves differently.
Interesting side note: Intel teamed up with Lava to make the X900. Now Lava isn't a "brand name", if you know what i mean. Intel's done a smart (clever?) thing, they've distanced themselves from Lava completely. So now it's only Xolo X900 by Intel. Even the website doesn't mention Lava. Can't tell if Xolo's a new company co-founded by Intel and Lava or if it's just a model name.
Galaxy S III is with Exynos, the international model GT-I9300.
Eugh, they launched with GB? Jelly Bean is almost out, what the hell are they thinking?