For most part Intel is absent from the mobile app world until now. The industry leader in making chips for wireless devices including mobile smartphones and other mobile devices is ARM Holdings. The success of ARM Holding is their high-powered chip architecture that is based on low-power use.
Intel is the world’s biggest chipmaker and the power house for manufacturing chips for PCs. However, until now it failed to adopt its PC architecture to the needs of the low-power mobile devices. But over the next few months, Intel will release its Atom line of low-power chips for tablets and smartphones in the U.S., U.K., France, China, and India. Intel spent over $5 billion to develop fabrication plants to manufacture Atom chips.
Mobile smartphones are going through an explosion worldwide. It is estimated that a billion units will be in use by 2015. Smartphone sales will generate about $150 billion in 2014.
In April, first mobile phones with Intel inside rolled out in India by Lava International. Intel smartphone made by Lenovo and ZTE will be rolled out in China shortly. The France Telecom wireless carrier, Orange, will roll out Intel powered Santa Clara line in France, U.K. and the rest of Europe.