Samsung plans to launch a smartphone at the end of the year that would come with an important novelty, it would mount a processor 64-bit Intel Moorefield. A news that seems strange at first but that makes sense when we read the reasons that have motivated the South Korean manufacturer to make this decision: Intel has offered its chips to a price that hardly exceeds production costs.
According to the Korean media DDaily Samsung would be preparing what could be its first smartphone with an Intel processor and it would arrive before the end of this year. According to what they say, the manufacturer would already be developing what the terminal would be taking into account for the rest of the characteristics that a Intel Atom Z3500, one of the latest Intel chips, belonging to the Moorefiel family which was presented at the MWC in February, an event in which Samsung revealed its Galaxy S5, perhaps the first conversations took place in Barcelona.
The device they have in their hands would not be far from a reference terminal in the Samsung catalog, but it could be a new mid-range model. For this reason, they would make a series of modifications to the processor. The Intel Z3500 Moorefield has 64-bit architecture and features four cores capable of speeds of 2,3 GHz. However, as the Asian media source of this news explains, the energy it would consume and the heat given off by the chip at maximum power would be too high for the smartphone they are planning, so they will reduce the maximum speed of the cores to 1,7 GHz.
Intel reduces your profits to the maximum
It is not the first time that we talked to you about this topic, last month we echoed a news story that said that Intel would be willing to give up a large part of its profits in order to gain market share in the tablet sector. This would allow it to reach agreements with new companies that could launch devices at lower prices. From the looks of it, this strategic plan would not be limited to tablets and they might also be interested in collaborating with some smartphone makers.
As in the case of Samsung, what better ally than one of the most important companies in the world. Hence, they have offered the chips almost for the cost equivalent to their production and therefore, narrowing the profit margin to its minimum expression. Intel Moorefields would cost Samsung U.S. dollar 7 the unit for the 20 that other options generally cost, which would have been definitive to decide to take the step.
Another reason is that despite having its own Exynos processors, with this agreement reduce dependency on Qualcomm, your main supplier. Samsung flees from these dependencies as we have already seen in the software section with Tizen, with which they want to have an alternative to Android and mainly to Google.
Vía: Phonearena