However, it was also said that the alliance with Rockchip was intended to help Intel get design wins for its Atom processor core and modem technology acquired when Intel bought the wireless business unit of Infineon Technologies AG. (TSMC).īack in May at the announcement of the deal Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO, said early designs would be made at TSMC but towards the end of 2015 and into 2016 the designs would move to Intel wafer fabs. Although labeled as a Intel part it was manufactured for Intel by foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The XG632 includes a dual-core Cortex-A5, GPU, image and video processor cores and Intel's 2G/3G baseband modem. Rockchip said the XMM6321 provides a 'lowest-cost, fastest-to-market' platform for entry-level equipment and that competing solutions require three to five ICs to achieve the same functionality. These are expected to drop the ARM cores and feature Intel Atom processor cores.īut for now Intel is stuck working with arch-rival ARM. Rockchip plans to launch the quad-core Sofia 3G and Sofia LTE chips in the first quarter of 2015 an these will adopt 64-bit CPU core and be optimized for Android v5 Lollipop platform. Source: Rockchip.Īpparently Atom-based Sofia mobile chipsets will have to wait until next year and fully integrated single-chip 4G/LTE modem plus application processor solutions may have to wait even longer, putting Intel significantly behind mobile processor market leader Qualcomm and its Snapdragon line of application processors. Intel, Rockchip not shouting about ARM Cortex dual-core in the XG632.

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