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Intel Mobile Chip Roadmap & Schedule

Intel to launch new tablet platforms, smartphone SoC
Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 21 August 2013]
Intel will launch new tablet platforms, 14nm Cherry Trail in the third quarter and 14nm Willow Trail in the fourth quarter of 2014, as well as new smartphone SoC, 22nm Merrifield, at the end of 2013, Moorefield in the first half of 2014 and 14nm Morganfield in the first quarter of 2015, according to Taiwan-based makers.

The sources pointed out that the Merrifield will have a performance boost of about 50% and a longer battery life compared to Intel's existing smartphone platform Clover Trail+.

Intel is already set to unveil its 22nm Bay Trail-based processors with the Silvermont architecture at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) from September 10-12 and will later release its Bay Trail-T processors for tablets, supporting both Windows 8.1 and Android 4.2, the sources said.

The Bay Trail-T platform also adopts the Silvermont architecture and supports a battery life over eight hours when active and weeks while idling. The Bay Trail-T will have two clock speed specifications, 1.8GHz and 2.4GHz and a Gen 7 GPU, the sources noted.

Intel will distribute its Cherry Trail samples to partners at the end of 2013, unveil the platform at Computex 2014, in June and announce the CPUs in the third quarter of 2014. The Cherry Trail features Intel's 14nm Airmont architecture with a clock speed of 2.7GHz and a GEN 8 GPU.

The Willow Trail & Derivatives series will adopt Intel's 14nm Goldmont architecture with a Gen9 GPU, supporting both Windows and Android operating systems.