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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.

Intel is now redirecting resources to recruit other wireless carriers and telephone makers to adopt its upcoming low-power Atom smartphone chip code-named Medfield, Otellini said on a conference call Tuesday.

Intel was hoping to see smartphones with its chips starting in the second half this year. Otellini stated he would be disappointed if Intel-based phones had been not readily available in 12 months. He did not comment on the smartphone   companies Intel was pursuing, but analysts on Wednesday mentioned that the chip maker could be pursuing smaller regional telephone makers, and perhaps bigger telephone makers such as LG.

Intel has had no achievement so far in the smartphone space. The corporation at present presents a low-energy Atom smartphone chip code-named Moorestown, which has located no adopters. Intel and Nokia last year partnered on the improvement of the Meego OS for mobile devices, but Nokia in February abandoned the OS to establish a future smartphone approach about Microsoft's Windows Telephone OS. Windows Telephone OS does not work on Intel's chips, and Otellini said the crumbling of the partnership has forced Intel to pursue other organisations to adopt Medfield.

Intel committed a lot of resources to Nokia around the Meego OS, but now has to restart efforts to get new clients to adopt Medfield, analysts mentioned. That could delay the launch of Intel Inside smartphones, but devices will at some point come. Still, the good results of such devices in a industry dominated by ARM processors remains a question mark, analysts stated.