====== Intel Mobile Internet Devices ======

Ars Technica posted hands-on experience with an Intel Mobile Internet Device running Mandriva Linux. According to the pictures available on their page, the device looks very interesting with a slide-in keyboard.

What brought my attention was the ultra low-voltage (ULV) processor with a 3W TDP. FYI, the Intel processor A100 is running at 600 MHz and supports both MMX and SSE2 instruction sets. This newcomer with CPUID=06D8h just lenghtens the list of CPUs available with the same cpuid. I would be interested to know //(i)// how to detect it wihout using the model string, //(ii)// the actual performance (SPECint results anyone?).

**Links:**
  * [[http://www.intel.com/products/mid/index.htm|Intel Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) & Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs)]]
  * [[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070710-hands-on-with-a-prototype-intel-mobile-internet-device.html|Hands-on with a prototype Intel Mobile Internet Device]]
  * [[http://www.dailymotion.com/blino/video/x2eu63_openarena-and-mandriva-on-intel-mid|OpenArena and Mandriva on Intel MID]]

**Amusing note:** it turns out the MID that was presented on behalf of Mandriva in the above-mentioned video by a half-nude guy was simply [[http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2879|lost]]! Besides, the presented poduct is not referenced in Intel's [[http://www.intel.com/products/mid/devices.htm|UMPC products]], neither is Mandriva announced as a supporter of this technology. At the [[http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070417supp.htm|Day 2 of the IDF in China]], Chandrasekher only talked about Red Flag and Canonical (Ubuntu Linux). So, it looks like breaching NDAs doesn't matter to anyone nowadays!? Humm, I just had a ROFL time.

Hey, since you don't care about leaking information, what about sending me results of benchmarks running on those CPUs? A shell access to determine //(i)// would be nice too (''cpuinfo --debug'' might help though). Thanks. ;-)

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