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One from David Manners' Mannerisms blog:

Intel's Medfield chip-set aimed at getting the company into smartphones has been dissed by ARM CEO Warren East.

"Are they ever going to be the leaders in power efficiency? No, of course not," East told Reuters at CES.

"It's inevitable Intel will get a few smartphone design wins," added East.

We're on the Pine Trail - the as yet unreleased, next-gen low-power platform from Intel.

Engadget reports that a German website CarTFT has got hold of a couple of Intel's latest processor / motherboard combos - intended primarily for nettops, it says -  and published some early benchmarks. See - Intel's Atom D510, D410 processors get benchmarked

Nokia has announced shipment of its N900 mobile computing device based on open source Maemo 5 software, which was announced back in August.

"What's exciting is the Maemo software, which takes its cues from the desktop computer and offers a full browsing experience like no other handset," says José-Luis Martinez, Vice President, Nseries, Nokia..

The Nokia N900 is based on the ARM Cortex-A8 processor and has up to 1GB of total application memory.  According to the company:

"The Internet Everywhere" is ARM's slogan for its latest low-power processor, the 45nm Cortex A5 MPCore, which is aimed at smartphones and MIDS and other such mobile devices, and is available with up to four cores.

Few details are available, writes our Technology Editor, Steve Bush, but the processor includes the firm's TrustZone security block and its 128-bit SIMD Neon multimedia engine, first introduced with the Cortex-A8.

Along with the core, ARM had released a physical IP package for 40nm chips, including low-leakage, said the firm, logic libraries optimised for TSMC's 40LP process.

The core is compatible with existing Cortex-A tools and software, said ARM, including Android, Adobe Flash, Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), JavaFX, Linux, Microsoft Windows Embedded, Symbian and Ubuntu.

One of the barriers to entry for ARM-based Netbooks appears to have been lifted - ARM say they have optimised Adobe Flash Player 10.1 on ARM-powered devices.

The work is part of the Open Screen Project, writes David Manners, which is an industry group with nearly 50 participants working together to deliver a consistent runtime environment across mobile phones, desktops and other consumer electronic devices.

The key point appears to be that Adobe Flash Player on ARM-powered devices will give consumers access to virtually all Web content everywhere, states ARM.

Intel has previously maintained - rather improbably - that the Web is geared for x86 devices. Tell that to users of Apple's iPhone 3GS.

File under "Multi-touch, Multi-Screen Intel Concept Laptop 2009"

Intel's mobility innovation team unveiled "Tangent Bay" at IDF. It describes it as "the first multi-touch, multi-screen concept laptop based on research and feedback from people who multi-task with work, media creation, entertainment and social networking."

One more for posterity, really - just marking the development in case it really takes off...

With the start of IDF, Intel has announced its plans for a new ISV and developer programme for the mobile platform. Check out the intel press release - Intel Atom Processor Developer Program for Mobile Devices to Spur New Wave of Applications.

"We want to fuel the growth of Intel Atom-based products designed for the mobile lifestyle," declares Renee James, general manager, Intel Software and Services Group.