One of the most significant announcements at the consumer electronics show (CES) this week was Intel's Medfield, an Atom-based smartphone SoC. The SoC itself is unremarkable, perhaps a little better than ARM Cortex-based SoCs in some areas, worse in others. The reason it is significant is that Motorola announced a multi-year partnership with the first products expected this summer, and Lenovo actually demoed a smartphone containing the chip.

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