Intel's scale and the reach of its other divisions gives Bell's smartphone unit a boost; for example, it can reuse code optimisations for Atom done by the desktop team.

Intel will once again take a stab at making smartphone chips, a colossal market that the world's largest chipmaker has yet to compete in.

Intel’s smartphone chips had thin margins, and now the company will focus on expensive server chips that will deliver Web services to mobile devices. Intel will also continue developing 5G modems.

Late on Friday night, Intel snuck out the news that it’s bailing on the smartphone market.Despite being the world’s best known processor maker, Intel was only a bit player in the mobile space ...

Intel recently reported 12,000 job losses and the cancellation of Broxton, after struggling to make an impact on the mobile market. Here's a rundown of what Intel is up to and has planned for mobile.

Today, nearly all modern smartphones use an ARM-based processor, along with every iPad and practically every Android tablet as well. Soon, though, Intel’s x86 silicon might finally pose a challenge.

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) recently scrapped its plans to sell 5G modems for smartphones, shortly after its top customer, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), announced that it would start using Qualcomm's (NASDAQ ...

Smartphone giant Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the only major vendor to use stand-alone modems in its devices, sourcing the chips from chip bellwethers.

Intel could bring big power savings to smartphone chips with the 22-nm process, when 3D transistors could reach smartphones. Intel’s initial chips made using the 22-nm process are already being ...

Nokia's move to the Windows Phone OS took the "wind" out of possible volume sales of Intel smartphone chips this year, but the chip maker has moved on, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said this week.

While CPUs based on the x86 architecture, pioneered by Intel (INTC-2.22%) decades ago, are dominant in the PC and server markets, it's a very different story in the smartphone market. In the world ...

Intel on Tuesday announced its first smartphone customers, signaling the arrival of Intel Inside smartphones after years of uphill struggle by the chip maker. Lenovo and Motorola will release ...