Intel push Ultra small quark processor for wearable devices

Reading] Quark processors will be used in wearable devices, skin patches, and even pill-type devices that can swallow stomachs. New CEO Blaine Kozanic (Brain Krzanich) Tencent technology Wang Jongwan September 11 San Francisco reported on September 10 at the Intel Information Technology Summit on IDF, the new CEO Blaine Kozanic (Brain Krzanich) and President Rui Renee ( Renee James) stood on the stage one after the other to introduce Intel's latest products. From the data center, personal pc, tablet, mobile phone, Intel's new leadership has announced that it will bring the 45-Year-old company into a new market: wearable equipment. The first CEO of the IDF, Kozanic, unveiled a series of tiny quark processors that will be used in wearable devices, skin patches and even pill-eating devices to collect medical data. Intel will launch its first product based on the series in the fourth quarter of this year. Product model Reference Design circuit board samples to help partners speed up the development of customized, optimized solutions, and first of all in the industrial, energy and transport subdivision areas. Renee, who took over the post of President in May, proudly announced, "This is the smallest of the things we've built." "She took out the earliest" big brick "mobile phone and the latest Lenovo phone to compare the development of mobile phones in the process, the difficulty of the processor along the way is not as easy as the average consumer's eyes. Quark series processors designed for mobile and wearable devices, only one-fifth of the size of the Atom processor, and are known as "open architecture". It is not yet certain whether this open architecture is designed for Intel products or different versions of Intel's authorized x86 structure for other vendors. If this is a new structure and is open to other companies through an authorization mechanism, Intel may pose a threat to rival arm and change the industry. In the past, the chip-industry leader has never authorised a x86 architecture for other vendors other than AMD. Attempts by Intel to build other architectures have also failed. So with the support of quark and the new structure, and the new business model, Kozanic may have the opportunity to push Intel into the next generation of the computer industry. Intel, which has been criticised in the smartphone arena for not responding fast enough, is planning to catch up in smart-wear devices. At today's meeting, Kozanic a prototype of smart watch and smart bracelet, revealing the possibilities of exploring the future with partners. "The field of wearable equipment is not intended to enter the consumer market, but to provide an open platform for developers," Kozanic said. "Qualcomm, the number-one competitor on the smartphone processor, unveiled the smart watch product Toq at a meeting just a few days ago, while also vigorously promoting medical applications, such as a sensor that can alert the impending heart attack," he said. In this wave of wearable equipment, the chanceBehind, also hides a threshold: price. The price of such smart products is usually not too high, such as Nike's fuel Band, Jawbone's up hand ring and other products, priced at more than 100 dollars, meaning that the cost of the chip must be lowered to about a dollar. This is a challenge for Intel, which sells hundreds of to thousands of dollars in high-priced chips to PCs and server systems. In the face of price restrictions, Kozanic also announced that it will be at the end of the Christmas shopping holiday, the launch price of 400 dollars below the two-in-oneness equipment, as well as 100 of dollars below the tablet. Everything about computers is about apps, Microsoft's Windows 8 is disappointing and Intel is involved as an important partner for Microsoft. Kozanic, who took over as CEO of Intel in May this year, stressed that Intel, in addition to working closely with Microsoft to make products more attractive, is also in the active layout of the Android tablet and mobile phone, hoping to make a comeback. At the end of the meeting, Intel's two top executives rarely accepted public questioning. Kozanic and LeBron James's two top executives answered a number of sharp questions, though not as inspiring as the Apple or Google tweet. Whether Kozanic can lead Intel to change the layout of the mobile area is still worth the attention.