Intel shares The Violet Light, what is this game?

Industry legend Intel has been in the exhibition for a long time, when the exhibition was privatized after the rumors have not dissipated. Now that Intel shares the Violet light, the news is finally put into place, a big game in front of everyone.

I. Intel's Predicament

Since the advent of the mobile Internet, Intel has been in trouble. In the desktop and server areas, although invincible, but in the mobile internet era, people's computers to upgrade the frequency is far less rapid than before.

Intel was an important player in the mobile world, but on the eve of Apple's rise, Intel sold the mobile division and missed the perfect opportunity. The low power atom of the X86 route is slow.

When the real competitive product atom z37xx on the market, the arm camp has made great strides in performance and has taken a leading position. The arm camp's industrial chain is complete, the number of vendors, software system support is complete, even if the Intel low price competition does not bring enough market share.

In this case, Intel's cooperative takeover is a natural choice, in the tablet sector, Intel has chosen the core micro, in the smartphone field, the hands of the exhibition and RDA's Violet is the choice.

Ii. Capital of the violet light

Tsinghua Violet name head is very big, background deep, but originally and cell phone chip does not have anything to do. But in recent years it has privatized the exhibition and RDA.

The exhibition on baseband chip was once an important player after MTK, now also has 5% of the market share, or even more than the Intel to buy the Infineon. And RDA in the peripheral chip on a wide range of RF, FM, baseband do, but also have considerable strength and share, but also in the cost control quite a lot of experience.

Intel is strong in technology and manufacturing processes, the cost of the control program is not its director, so on the tablet Intel found the core micro, on the smartphone, with the exhibition and RDA, but also has the background and policy Violet is clearly a good partner.

Iii. the fog of cooperation

There is a lot of talk about how Intel works together, saying that Intel is going to give the core authority to the show. But in the mobile domain, the core power consumption is obviously not used, even if the exhibition to get the authorization, it is not much use.

If you consider from each other, the exhibition has baseband technology and years of experience, RDA has complete peripheral chip and cost control experience, Intel has the technology and the most powerful manufacturing process. Three of the results of wholehearted cooperation will produce new giants beyond Qualcomm and MTK.

Intel offers a high performance application processor and manufacturing process, with the baseband technology and experience, and RDA provides peripheral chips to complete the solution while controlling costs. The final is a high-performance, Low-cost complete solution, both the exhibition and RDA customers are ready, Intel can also take the opportunity to make the smartphone popular X86 instruction set.

However, in the technology to integrate three difficult, Intel acquired Infineon 4 years, still did not make the integration of the SOC, the exhibition is not optimistic to join. And from Intel's collaboration with UBS, Intel has not taken the research and development resources out of the process. What the Intel shares in the violet light will eventually turn out to be, it's still a mystery.

In fact, this seemingly beautiful collaboration has been a lot of intel in recent years. The takeover of Infineon, and Nokia's Meego, the leading manufacturer of embedded operating systems, is far from achieving the desired results. What about this cooperation with the violet light? We wait and see.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)