Good to know, the merry-go-round regarding mobility linux distributions Intel has been involved with (Meego and crew) makes me think they haven't quite focused in on a solid plan yet.
Sounds like they are trying to move in that direction...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5371/...ppup-on-ivy-bridge-ultrabook-reference-design
Good to know, the merry-go-round regarding mobility linux distributions Intel has been involved with (Meego and crew) makes me think they haven't quite focused in on a solid plan yet.
Gadgets McAfee Report Claims Virtually All Mobile Malware in Q3 2011 Aimed at Android
Shane McGlaun (Blog) - November 21, 2011 12:45 PM
Android users beware
McAfee has issued a new report that looks at mobile malware threats for Q3 2011. According go the security firm, nearly all new mobile malware for the quarter was targeted at Android.
That is no surprise considering that Android allows for third-party app stores and doesn't check the apps on the main store to the extent that Apple checks its apps on the App Store. Android OS is also the most popular mobile operating system for smartphones, so its an easy target.
The company found that malware aimed at Android devices rose nearly 37% since Q2 2011. 2011 is on track to be the business year for malware ever.
By the end of 2011, McAfee is predicting that there will be 75 million different and unique malware threats. McAfee thinks that part of the reason malware is increasingly targeting Android is that devices running the OS are so popular.
According to the company, one of the most common malware threats for Q3 were trojans that sent SMS messages and stole money. The messages are generally to premium numbers that cost the user money on their phone bills. McAfee also noted that other common types of malware include fake AV, autorun, and trojans that steal passwords.
It's also interesting to note that the U.S. is the number one source of services that hold malware. The report pegs 65.8% of the servers with malware in the U.S. with Europe and the Middle East collectively having 22.8% of all servers with malware.
The massive growth in malware this year has lead to 2011 being called the year of mobile malware. Apple is being overlooked for malware threats thanks in part to tighter security practices.
Source: TechCrunch
Researchers Find That Not All Androids Are Equally Secure
3:00 PM - November 30, 2011 - By Douglas Perry -
Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have published a paper which details differences in Android security across eight models.
According to the findings, only three phones "properly" enforced Android's permission-based security model.
The conclusion is that Google's Nexus One and Nexus S phones with baseline Android configurations as well as the Motorola Droid "were basically clean." However, pre-installed applications added by manufacturers and carriers add a substantial risk of successful malicious attack to phones, Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor of computer science at NCSUand co-author of a paper describing the research, said.
HTC’s Legend, EVO 4G and Wildfire S, Motorola’s Droid X and Samsung’s Epic 4G revealed "significant vulnerabilities." The EVO 4G was the most vulnerable phone with eight leaked permissions in the test. The Legend and the Wildfire had six leaks each, followed by the Wildfire and Droid X with four leaks each.
"Some of these pre-loaded applications, or features, are designed to make the smartphones more user-friendly, such as features that notify you of missed calls or text messages," said Jiang. “The problem is that these pre-loaded apps are built on top of the existing Android architecture in such a way as to create potential 'backdoors' that can be used to give third-parties direct access to personal information or other phone features."
The researchers said that they notified the software vendors of the discovered vulnerabilities prior to the release of the report and recommend that users should keep up with security updates from software vendors to protect themselves from attacks.
More info on Android Security.....
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/android-smartphone-vulnerability-security,news-13346.html
How will Intel address this problem?
This post has absolutely nothing to do with anything remotely related to this thread.
You may as well ask how Corning is going to address this problem.
Intel is showing that arm is not magic...
2. I am skeptical on Intel being able to make the necessary margins based on hardware sales alone.
Why not discuss the performance and power needs instead of everything but those? They are sort of what the thread is about.
Vesku from opening post of this thread said:Intel should really push a unified x86 application marketplace, apps that are functional from all your x86 devices.
First, Intel bought a company called Wind River. A $400M company prior to acquisition, Intel snagged WindRiver back in July of 2009. Their mission statement? To take open source software and make it commercially viable.
Whether it’s stress testing or adding new features, Wind River takes open source software and improves it to the point where you can now sell it as a commercial product. This is similar to what Apple did with the base of much of OS X. You take some good open source projects and pay people to polish and harden the last 10 - 20% of them.
Wind River has a platform for Android. It incorporates Atom optimizations into Android, hardens the software stack and prepares it for use in Moorestown devices. Google has little incentive to dedicate a lot of support to Moorestown, so Intel had to internalize that.
2. I am skeptical on Intel being able to make the necessary margins based on hardware sales alone.
Current SoCs are so inexpensive in large part because there's not much to distinguish one from another... which is why Intel could pull even further away if they can play the security card as well.
Yes, it seems they have a real chance to distinguish themselves.
With respect to post #28 I am even wondering if Intel might begin to wrestle power to away from the carriers and make their Android platform more like Apple. (ie, a greater level of control by Intel rather than letting carriers add these apparently "Security fouling" apps on, etc)
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I think Medfield is about 82 mm or 62.5% of the 131 mm required for dual core Sandy Bridge.
Nemesis, have you seen TSMC's 28nm or GLOBALFOUNDRIES'? Don't know what's going on at GloFo, but TSMC's node looks pretty good and that's not the low power process.
Your talking about future chips that aren't here . Medfield goes on sale in china in 2qt. 2012.
No . I am not viewing medfield in anyway other light than intels entry level to smart phones . So I don't have medfield at the highend. Intels next chip @22nm Has to go against A15s and from what medfield is showing . This thing has become more than what if and buts. Medfield surprized me. I was thinking we went get this kind of news till 22 atom. Intel medfield does well against present company but its a year late as anand stated.