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Earlier in the week, Intel Corporation announced a new collaboration with TSMC on technology platform, intellectual property infrastructure, and System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions. This collaboration would add Intel’s Atom cores to TSMC’s technology platform, and would expand Intel’s Atom SoC deployment in various implementations, the company said.
“We believe this effort will make it easier for customers with significant design expertise to take advantage of benefits of the Intel architecture in a manner that allows them to customize the implementation precisely to their needs,” Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO, said in a statement.
The collaboration marks an important step for Intel, a company that is already dominant in the PC market, to take a big step into the mobile world. Implementing Atom chips into handheld phones, Internet devices and other consumer-friendly devices is likely to put other mobile chip makers on high alert too.
Intel said the Atom processor, which features 47 million transistors, will eventually find its way into mobile internet devices (MIDs), smartphones, netbooks, nettops, and AC-powered consumer electronic devices, bringing all the benefits of computing to an emerging class of devices.
TSMC’s president and CEO Rick Tsai said in a statement that the collaboration with Intel will help proliferate the Atom processor SoC and foster overall economic growth, in addition to extending the current collaboration between the two companies to support future Intel embedded x86 products.
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