Intel and Ericsson made public their plans to collaborate and the main goal behind this partnership is to bring High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) to mobile Internet devices (MIDs) such as laptops and other similar devices.

The short-term plan of the two giant companies is to target the new HSPA mobile data solutions to the Intel Moorestown platform. Ericsson also announced that it plans to extend its 3G mobile broadband from notebooks to a series of other pocket devices. Intel and Ericsson officials announced their joint plans at the Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan.

Anand Chandrasekher, Intel’s senior vice president talked about the progress made by Chipzilla in the MID market. Chandrasekher also presented the “Moorestown” and its abilities for the first time.

Moorestown is made up of a System on a Chip (SOC) nicknamed “Lincroft” which is set to replace the Atom CPU, and packs a 45nm processor, graphics, memory controller and video encoder/decoder all on one tiny chip.

The first thing Chandrasekher emphasized about the Moorestown was its energy efficiency: 10x less power required than current Atom CPU. However, the company hasn’t produced a working version of their MID concept “based” on Moorestown yet.

Sadly, the device presented in Taipei wasn’t even a prototype. It was just a validation board with the working Moorestown chip added. Although it did not impress, the device it’s being hailed as a big step towards the predicted 2009 launch.

Moorestown will come with an I/O board dubbed “Langwell” which helps the device connect to wireless.