Get ready! The Mobile Internet Device (MID) is around the corner

Mobile phones and laptop computers are closer to merging into one single device, through advances in microchip technology and user preference. Some people shun the idea of having a multipurpose device but phone, camera, and music may soon live together in harmony in the mobile internet device (MID) as companies like ARM, Intel and Apple, search for new ways to make mobile devices more efficient and powerful.

It was announced last month that Apple would pay $278 million for low-power chip design company P.A. Semi. In that article Michael S. Malone explains the importance of the microchip in the evolutionary path of the wireless device. Read the rest of the article Silicon Insider: Don't Forget the Microchip here. Check out another interesting article from the microchip perspective about Smartphones vs. Mobile Internet Devices from Wireless Week here.