Intel and Motorola Mobility announced that the two companies are entering a multi-year, multi-device strategic relationship that includes smartphones which Motorola will begin shipping in the second half of this year using Intel Atom processors and the Android platform. The collaboration, which also covers tablets, will combine Intel's silicon processor technology with Motorola's mobile device design to deliver products with high performance and long battery life, the companies said. The agreement marks Intel's entry on the smartphone market with the Atom platform. The companies will collaborate across hardware, software and services to deliver the new devices. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel also showed a Lenovo handset based on the Atom platform. The K800 smartphone will be available in China in the second quarter with China Unicom, Lenovo announced. Intel expects several smartphones based on its new Atom processor Z2460 to come to market in 2012. The company also demonstrated at CES its forthcoming 32nm Atom SoC for tablets and hybrids running on Microsoft Windows 8, codenamed Clover Trail, the first ultrabook from Dell running the Intel i7 core processor, and the next generation of ultrabook processors, called Ivy Bridge.
