Mobile Internet device

Mobile Internet Device (English Mobile Internet Device, MID) is a policy used by various vendors name for a multimedia-capable handheld with wireless Internet access. It is used for entertainment, information and location-based services for the private market. Only secondary they are meant for businesses. A MID is slightly bigger than a smartphone but smaller than an Ultra -Mobile PC (UMPC ). Such devices were therefore so called because they fill the niche between smartphones and Tablet PCs. However, this limit is not precisely defined. A typical example would be the Nokia N810 or the Gigabyte M528 ( Aigo MID).

Intel MID platforms

Intel announced a prototype MID at the Intel Developer Forum in spring 2007 in Beijing. A MID - Development of Sophia Systems with the Intel Centrino Atom was announced in April 2008.

Hardware

The device is based on a processor and chipset from Intel, the lower power consumption than most x86 derivatives and is an extension of the Centrino platform dar. the meantime, several platforms have been announced that are listed here:

McCaslin platform ( 2007)

This platform includes a Intel-A100/A110-Prozessor (codenamed Stealey ) 90 nm with 600 beziehjungsweise 800 MHz.

Menlow platform ( 2008)

This platform includes an Intel Atom processor (codenamed Silverthorne and Diamondville ) 45 nm CMOS with up to 1.86 GHz. It uses the Poulsbo chipset ( System Controller Hub ) and includes Intel HD Audio Azalia. Here, however, does not refer to Azalia HD audio codec.

Moorestown platform ( 2009)

This platform includes an Intel Atom processor (codenamed Lincroft ) 45 nm

Medfield platform ( 2011)

This platform contains a 32 nm Intel Atom processor Penwell.

Operating system

Intel MIDs will be based on an embedded version of Linux with a " finger-friendly " user interface which has been modified by Intel. By using a dual-core processor, the device will still be able to run with Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Intel announced in May 2007 a ​​demo version of Linux, based on China's Red Flag Linux ( Red Flag MIDINUX ).

Later, Intel announced the cooperation with Ubuntu to develop a Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition, known as Ubuntu MID Edition. On the website it says about the Ubuntu distribution, it offers " the complete experience of the Internet for users of Intel's 2008 Mobile Internet Device (MID ) platform."