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VIRTUALISATION Intel and Nokia team to go 'beyond the smartphone
VIRTUALISATION Intel and Nokia team to go 'beyond the smartphone | Intel and Nokia team to go 'beyond the smartphone |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 24 June 2009 | |
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The two said that their future standards-based devices "will marry the best features and capabilities of the computing and communications worlds and will transform the user experience, bringing incredible mobile applications and always on, always connected wireless Internet access in a user-friendly pocketable form factor." The two companies are touting the alliance as a source of great innovation and their announcement suggests that they intend to work on a whole range of technologies that will underpin future devices. Kai Öistämö, Nokia's executive vice president, devices, said: "We will explore new ideas in designs, materials and displays that will go far beyond devices and services on the market today. This collaboration will be compelling not only for our companies, but also for our industries, our partners and, of course, for consumers." Anand Chandrasekher, Intel senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, added: "This Intel and Nokia collaboration unites and focuses many of the brightest computing and communications minds in the world. With the convergence of the Internet and mobility as the team's only barrier, I can only imagine the innovation that will come out of our unique relationship with Nokia. The possibilities are endless." This is the second significant 'marriage' between the chip making and mobile industries in the past year. Last August, Ericsson and STMicroelectronics announced plans to merge their respective cellphone chip and cellphone software (platform) businesses into a 50/50 joint venture that they said would have the industry's strongest product offering in semiconductors and platforms for mobile applications. That marriage was flagged as likely to have a major impact on chip makers supplying the mobile handset market, and today's announcement of Intel's collaboration with Nokia is likely to have even greater impact.
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