The latest Asus Zenfone would not use processors made by Intel. Instead, the Taiwanese company is going to switch to the handheld device processor made by Qualcomm and MediaTek.
The move is a blow to Intel, at least in the mobile segment. As is known, during this Asus is one of the close associates who always wears processors made by Intel.
But on the phone Zenfone 3, everything changed. CEO Jerry Shen had already stated that it will not use Intel processors in their latest mobile phones. Any statement that will soon be realized.
As reported by KompasTekno of Gizchina, Monday (05/16/2016), about 90 percent of its entire product line Zenfone 3 is rumored to be wearing a Qualcomm processor. While the remaining 10 percent were MediaTek processor. Even so, it is still not known, the series are to be used.
Asus estimates that two-thirds of the total units produced are Zenfone Zenfone 3 3 Max. While the standard version of the Deluxe and produced only a third of it.
This latest generation Zenfone promised slide in June. The price is pegged ranging from 260 US dollars or equivalent to 306 US dollars.
Did Intel leave the smartphone?
In April 2016 then, called Intel has given up in the mobile market. The allegations triggered by the news that says the processor giant stop the development of two Atom processors for mobile devices, namely Sofia and Broxton.They also canceled production of the Atom series processors X5 (Cherry Trail). In its place will be issued Pentium and Celeron processor coded Apollo Like genre that tends to target computers 2-in-1
After leaving the handheld device segment, the processor giant intends to focus on developing 5G technologies. The plan, the resources used for the development of Sofia and Broxton will replace the chip and modem work on 5G technology.
5G technology is a high-speed mobile internet connection that can be used a variety of handheld devices. Now, this technology is still not released and under development.
When materialized later, 5G technology predicted would come to influence the development of industry Internet of things (IOT). There is a possibility, Intel develops processor series Broxton for this segmentation.
