Intel is set to showcases a new Atom processor at this week’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco. The chip, codenamed Rosepoint, is said to include an on-board digital Wi-Fi transceiver and if well received could see the wholescale miniaturisation of Wi-Fi technology, leading to slimmer and more energy efficient handsets.

The Californian CPU manufacturer is unveiling the processor as part of a research project that aims to digitise radio technology, which the company suggests will bring significant reductions in power, cost and size to Intel-powered handsets. Additionally, digitisation of the technology means future advances in size reduction will be easy to utilise.

Intel’s chief technology officer, Justin Rattner, says the chips will have “state of the art power efficiency.”

“With a digital approach to radio, you can bring the benefits of Moore’s law to RF and radio circuits” he told Wired.

The design of the Rosepoint processor places a digital 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi chip directly onto a dual-core Atom processor, using noise-cancelling and radiation-shielding measures in order to minimise interference across both chips.

The research project is ongoing, but the new chips are expected to feature in devices by 2015.

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