In a not-so-unexpected turn of events, mobile giant Nokia and chipmaker Intel (another giant, but amongst microscopic things) have come together to form a collaboration. The news was announced earlier this week. The announcement however, left out the juicy bits, all of them. It did not say anything about what the two companies are planning to do together. A very vague blanket statement was made saying they would be looking in to the mobile computing market. Well, duh! What else would a mobile device maker and a chip company be expected to do together? Definitely not make large vacuum cleaners.
But there you have it, a momentous announcement that has been stripped of all data whatsoever. However, it is easy to see that both the companies stand to gain (or lose) from the collaboration. The market for convergent mobile devices is now raring to go and the recent bevy of launches (Nokia’s own N97, Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS just to name a few), it is easy to see where this is going to go. Analysts of course have declined to comment. With the amount of information that both companies have supplied us with so far, everyone might as well go in any direction their gadgetylicious ideas take them.
Intel has recently been hoping for the Atom chip to make some forays in to the mobile market. But it has not met with much luck so far. All the major mobile phones use a rival architecture called ARM. Intel has been trying really hard to get into the smart phone business, which has been proven by the many different investments it has been making lately. It has given a lot of money to the developers of a mobile Linux platform called Moblin. It has forked out the neat sum of $884 million to acquire Wind river Systems, a company that makes Linux systems that can used in embedded systems like those used in cars.
Nokia on the other hand has also seen loses in the recent times. Even though it is a strong player in the smartphones category, Apple’s iPhone has toppled it and everyone else all of a sudden. Apple’s intensive third party application support is also something that Nokia has been only struggling to match without much success.
So all this just goes to show that absolutely anything is possible from this coming together. And if you want some real information, you where to knock.
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