Anand Chandrasekher

Intel and Nokia on Tuesday announced a shared vision and a partnership to develop a new class of smartphones and other computing devices that will run on Intel's chipsets. The devices promise to combine the performance of powerful computers with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications.

The new mobile platform aims to make way for innovative hardware, software and mobile Internet services through open-standards-based technologies.

At this week's Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan, Intel conducted its first public demonstration of Moorestown -- a new Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform that company executives say will "increase battery life an order of magnitude" in a variety of portable devices.

With the launch of Moorestown, Intel is on track to reduce "idle power by more than 10 times compared to the first-generation MIDs based on the Intel Atom processor," said Intel Senior Vice President Anand Chandrasekher, who is also general manager of the company's ultra mobility group.

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