Wednesday, April 18, 2007
HTC Shift Supports Intel's New Ultra Mobile Platform 2007
Posted by Darius Wey in "NEWS" @ 06:15 AM
"Anand Chandrasekher, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra Mobility Group, described the evolution of the personal mobile Internet, outlined changes in Intel's silicon roadmap that will create radical reductions in power requirements and innovative new packaging technology, and disclosed a range of leading industry players Intel is working with to establish the MID and ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) categories. Chandrasekher introduced the Intel® Ultra Mobile platform 2007 (formerly codenamed "McCaslin") for MIDs and UMPCs and said systems will be available over the summer from Aigo*, Asus*, Fujitsu*, Haier*, HTC* and Samsung*. The Intel Ultra Mobile platform 2007 is based on the Intel processor A100 and A110, the Intel 945GU Express Chipset and the Intel ICH7U I/O Controller Hub."
Based on a hands-on with a prototype last month, it was revealed that a VIA CPU formed a part of the guts and gore of the HTC Shift. However, a press release out of the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing indicates that the device will be powered by Intel's new Ultra Mobile Platform 2007, which in engineering terms, translates to their optimized A100/A110 processors, the 945GU Express Chipset, and the ICH7U I/O Controller Hub. Combined with a plethora of wireless capabilities, a slide-and-tilt 7" display, a QWERTY keyboard, and a 30GB HDD, among others, the Windows Vista-based HTC Shift is hard to resist. Come Q3, it would be a surprise to see it not fly off store shelves and into the hands of mobile geeks.
Based on a hands-on with a prototype last month, it was revealed that a VIA CPU formed a part of the guts and gore of the HTC Shift. However, a press release out of the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing indicates that the device will be powered by Intel's new Ultra Mobile Platform 2007, which in engineering terms, translates to their optimized A100/A110 processors, the 945GU Express Chipset, and the ICH7U I/O Controller Hub. Combined with a plethora of wireless capabilities, a slide-and-tilt 7" display, a QWERTY keyboard, and a 30GB HDD, among others, the Windows Vista-based HTC Shift is hard to resist. Come Q3, it would be a surprise to see it not fly off store shelves and into the hands of mobile geeks.
