Intel’s secret plan
At Intel’s offices in Austin, visitors are welcomed by security, then pass through yet another gauntlet of guards and buffers as they make their way past a set of stout metal doors into the facility’s fourth-floor labs. 
Once inside, they find a chaotic tangle of circuit boards and wires and the animated chatter of engineers huddling around computers and workbenches. At one end of the room a mysterious-looking box about the size of a refrigerator conceals a project so top-secret that the engineers won’t tell you its code name at first; later, one lets it slip: Medfield.
What the team in Austin – and their bosses at Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. – will disclose is that the microprocessor they’re testing inside that black box is the culmination of a decade-long effort to push the world’s leading supplier of brawny, energy-hungry chips for enterprise computers and PCs into an important new market: portable devices. Read full story:
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