Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is about to disclose another iPhone and probably revived models of its iPad in the next month.
The anticipated date of disclosure is 10th September in San Francisco and it is the same day for another equally interesting development by Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) as it has also planned to hold its annual conference for developers, known as Intel Developer Forum (IDF)at the Moscone West convention center.
Intel may unveil an accelerated timetable for the manufacturing of its new 14-nanometer generation of Atom chips for tablet computers and smartphones. The microprocessor giant has struggled to attain a foothold in mobile devices where the vast bulk of chips are designed by Apple for its own usage or by licensees of Britain’s ARM Holdings plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:ARMH) including a group of chip manufacturers such as NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM) and QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM).
Manufacturing smaller chips can enormously increase their efficiency, measured by how much work they can do per watt of the power consumed. For more than a year ago, Intel has been shipping personal computer and server chips, known as “Core” with transistors that can measure 22 nanometers or billionths of a meter. The next step for Intel is to announce its still-faster designs of 14-nanometer which are anticipated to enter production in its Core line of chips by about second quarter of 2014.
The company is likely to introduce a timetable at IDF that would considerably fit the inevitable one-year lag for improving the Atom chip to the next level in speed, according to a person near to Intel. In fact Atoms will go into 14-nanometer manufacture just six months after the Core chips.
The 22-nanometer Atom chips are perhaps at similarity with ARM Holdings plc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:ARMH) based chips in bringing the same performance at comparable power levels, as said by Tom Half hill who is a microprocessor analyst of the Linley Group.