Intel Atom Chips to Power Host of New Mobile Gadgets

Intel is making another big push into the mobile landscape with Mobile Internet Devices, or MIDs, which are Internet-specific devices located in the area between smartphones and laptops.

Hoping to steal a bit of thunder from Apple and Asus with their iPhone and Eee PC, Intel is looking to fill that gap between smartphones and laptops with small and simple Internet-enabled devices. To begin, the devices being called MIDs will not include any kind of voice abilities, but will be focuses primarily on data.

This is the same area occupied by devices like the Nokia 810, Samsung Q1, Asus Eee and more. These are the type of low-end devices capable of giving the user a complete Internet experience while not being big and bulky like the traditional laptop or not limited like web-browsing smartphones.

Intel has been out of the mobile market for quite some time, but it thinks that using its chips including the current Atom processor and the upcoming Moorestown will be the right fit for the mobile landscape because many of the web applications are built for Intel processors on laptops, so optimization for the MIDs will be less painful.

Intel has said that the first round of MIDs will begin shipping this summer.

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