MIDs on display at IDF San Francisco 2008

Back when it was still called Centrino Atom, the Intel Atom was cited as being tucked inside at least 20 Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) at April’s IDF in Shanghai. After some double-checking and list comparisons, I came up with a final number of 27 devices. Four months later, we’ve got Steve from UMPCPortal at IDF in San Francisco today sharing a list of the 19 MIDs on display there. I’ve redone the chart (see below) for easier viewing and added links to all the devices we’ve seen/heard of before, which as you’ll see is most of them. Intel often shows the same set of devices again and again, though, so this is just really par for the course.

There seems to be a few discrepancies in the original chart, but I’ve done my best to leave everything as is since the info comes straight from an official Intel handout. One thing I did change was the Fujitsu model number, which is listed as U2020 on the flyer (note that there’s also no mention of the SSD option).

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Though it appears that the five unlinked devices are brand new, that isn’t entirely true. We may have never seen anything about the Inventec X5 and S32, but the company has been associated with UMPCs and MIDs in the past. And I’ve never heard of TriGem before, but Wibrain is well known around these parts and Yukyung is associted with Viliv, whose UMPCs were seen at CES 2008 and who recently released an X5 PMP in Korea. [UPDATE: The Yukyung X5 seems to actually be the Viliv S5; there’s also now a Viliv S7 UMPC.]

I’m not sure why UMPCs like the Willcom D4 and Asus R50A are included in this MID list either, as I always thought that Intel’s MID definition included Linux. If this is no longer the case, then why aren’t other Atom devices like the Kohjinsha SC3 or LG XNote B831 included? I’m confused.

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