Intel Medfield: System-on-a-Chip for Smartphone

"Some folks from Fortune magazine recently toured the Intel campus and, while checking out Intel’s new Moorestown (a 2-chip system designed for low-power UMPCs) the hosts accidentally let it slip that they were working on an even lower-powered version called Medfield. Medfield is designed to bring notebook power to smartphones (how friggin’ awesome would that be?) by 2011."

Intel's Moorestown chips, from what I have been reading at least, seem like some pretty interesting pieces of technology. Compared to Intel's Atom processor, the Mooretown is said to consume 10 times less energy when in standby mode. Seeing something like that moved to the smartphone arena just brings a smile to my face... Unfortunately 2011 seems like such a long way off.