Intel today showed the first working prototype device based on Moorestown chipset. The new chipset is designed to be more efficient for use in Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and ultra mobile PCs. Intel has achieved the increase in performance and efficiency by using 45 nanometer manufacturing process and redesign of the core processor. The new core processor is called Lincroft, it integrates main processor with memory controller and a video-encoding engine. The integration eliminates the need of separate Northbridge making the chip smaller, faster and more power efficient.
Intel also announced that it will be working with Ericsson and Option to develop HSPA based 3G chips that will support Moorestown. The 3G chip will be less that one square inch in size making them ideal for use in MIDs. Intel says that the Moorestown chipset will use 10x less power in idle stage compared to its predecessor the Atom processor. For the first time in the video above, Intel’s Anand Chandrasekhar shows a working device based on the new Moorestown chipset. Intel will start mass production of the chipset in 2009 and we will see device based on the new chipset in second half of 2009.