Intel tips Moorestown details, talks up x86 smartphones

At Hot Chips this past week, Intel’s Rajesh Patel revealed more details of the chipmaker’s upcoming Moorestown platform. Patel, who is the lead architect of the platform’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) part, also made it clear that he really does believe that Moorestown is a bona fide “smartphone” platform that will give us the world’s first x86-based phones. I wasn’t actually at the presentation, so I didn’t get close enough to Patel to tell if there was any crack smoke on his breath as he made this smartphone claim, but I did get hold of the materials, so let’s take a look…