Moorestown (computing platform)

{{Short description|Handheld platform by Intel Corporation}}

Moorestown is the Intel Corporation's handheld MID and smartphone platform based on Lincroft system-on-a-chip with an Atom processor core, Langwell input/output Platform Controller Hub (I/O PCH), and a Briertown Power Management IC.{{Cite web|url=http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2010/20100504comp.htm|title = New Intel® Atom™ Processor-Based Platform Using Significantly Lower Power Readies Intel for Smartphone, Tablet Push}}

[http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/reference/Moorestown_backgrounder.pdf Intel’s Next-Generation Handheld Platform (codenamed “Moorestown”)] Announced in 2010, the platform was demonstrated running Moblin Linux.[http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3716 Intel Demonstrates Moorestown Smartphones and Tablet Running Moblin, Including LG], [Quanta] and [Compal]

The Moorestown platform introduced the Simple Firmware Interface (SFI), a lightweight alternative to ACPI. In Linux 5.12, support for SFI, which was previously marked as obsolete, was removed from the kernel by Intel.[https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-SFI-Obsolete The Linux Kernel Obsoletes The Intel Simple Firmware Interface][https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Simple-Firmware-Interface-Drop Intel's Simple Firmware Interface Being Killed Off With Linux 5.12]