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Where can you find a MID?
By Jeff Moriarty (Intel) (33 posts) on October 22, 2008 at 9:10 am
One of the most common questions I get about MID's isn't a technical one - it's simply "where can I get one?" Here is at least a partial answer of where you can currently find Intel Atom processor-based MIDs.
It's a tricky question, and even people inside Intel have a tough time keep track especially with different devices only available in some geographies. It also includes some high level features, and where you can go to buy them. If I missed anything, let me know!
| Aigo | |
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| BenQ | |
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I no sooner put this together and it looks like we will have to add a Compal/SFR MID to the list once formal details are announced.
I should also point out that if you're interested in other mobile devices, there is also a wealth of information in the Product Portal at UMPCPortal.
Categories: Mobility
Comments (25)
October 22, 2008 5:13 PM PDT
 papinymph | So when will intel provide some XP Drivers for the Aigo Mid? That was part of the marketing... So when do we get those Drivers? |
| October 22, 2008 8:40 PM PDT
Anon |
Can we get some DRIVERS that works as advertised? The GMA500 drivers claim to have hardware acceleration for a lot of things but the drivers does NOT work. |
| October 23, 2008 8:28 AM PDT
Chad | Where is the Gigabyte's M528. This is was a MID should be 3G and small, almost pocketable (if you have really big pockets) and a good web browser. Lastly it comes in black. What more can you want from a device. |
| October 23, 2008 9:35 AM PDT
Jeff Moriarty (Intel)
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@papinymph & Anon - Not sure on the answers, but I've asked some of our engineers for some help. I'll let you know what I find. @Chad - I know people have played with them, but I didn't hear from our internal team they were fully available. I checked Gigabyte's page and it also doesn't list the M528 as available. Can you point me to something with release information? |
| October 23, 2008 10:01 AM PDT
Chad |
You are right it's not available thats the problem. There is no easy way to get a device in the USA with a 3G built in modem... How is this market expected to take off without any devices for people to get excited over. Well I guess the lack of a quality os it a bit of a limiting factor. Ubuntu's moblin is probably the closest you will get to a successful OS since there are a large number of deb packages which will mostly work right off the bat with out needing to set up a new infrastructure for package management. |
| October 24, 2008 5:45 AM PDT
Gunjan Rawal (Intel)
| Apparently this one is a varation of the Aigo model for France: http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/23/intel-based-mid-to-make-a..... ances-sfr/ |
| October 24, 2008 8:59 AM PDT
papinymph | Thank you Jeff... We need these drivers desperately to get xp fulling functional on the Aigo... Please intel deliver as promised. Anxiously expecting a favorable response.... :) |
| October 24, 2008 10:53 AM PDT
Jeremy Saldate (Intel)
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@papinymph - Please contact Aigo for general Aigo MID drivers. Intel only supplies drivers for Intel products, which can be downloaded here: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/ @Anon - I'm not quite sure I understand the issues you're seeing. Which hardware acceleration features are you having problems with, and what claims are you referring to? Have these issues been documented as known bugs? |
| October 24, 2008 11:14 AM PDT
Jeremy Saldate (Intel)
| @Anon - one more thing... please contact me at: jeremy DOT saldate AT intel DOT com for more help. I'll look into it further to see if I can get you an answer. |
| October 26, 2008 2:19 PM PDT
Jay |
Thanks for the update. Does anyone know approximately when BenQ's MID will be available in the U.S. and if any of the MIDs will come with Voice Recognition features? |
| October 28, 2008 9:46 AM PDT
Jeff Moriarty (Intel)
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@Jay - We can help you with what's available, but we can't comment on an OEM's plans for release, you would need to ask them directly. As for voice recognition features, check out One Voice Technologies at http://www.onev.com/ (just turn your PC speakers down first). |
| November 1, 2008 6:50 PM PDT
Donny |
The drivers for the GMA500 on vista are really slow for video playback. Also there is no Open GL support. At least not for Stellarium or Starry Night Backyard. The 950 is so much better for these programs and for video playback. When do we expect to see better performance as advertised out of the 500? Donny |
| November 5, 2008 11:25 PM PST
Kelvin |
Hi Jeremy, I think Anon has download the IEGD driver. However, he failed to use the hardware acceleration feature inside the GMA500. Many people encountered similar problem. It seems that the IEGD driver do not bring the hardware acceleration to the movie playback. |
| March 18, 2009 7:18 PM PDT
Lolento |
I have used gma500 drivers from Dell, Fujitsu, Kohjinsha and the like. There is no video decode acceleration for MPEG4 pt2, WMV and VC1 which were advertised as features of gma500. If there is such features, please show me how to get it working. I can get video decode accelerations for H.264 and Mpeg2 with Cyberlink codecs. Paying extra for codecs is fine but I just want to see the hardware (gma500) is working as Intel advertised!!! Also, there is NO directx acceleration working at all! My 5 year old igp chipset runs FASTER than this gma500 which advertised as 'high-end'. In fact, I paid $700 more to use this chipset over comparable NETBOOK chipsets....SHOW ME THE FEATURES WORKING! |
| April 1, 2009 12:59 AM PDT
franco |
Absolutely agree. I found ads like the following really, really upsetting. PLEASE MAKE YOUR PRODUCT WORK AS ADVERTISED! "The board integrates the Intel US15W XL system controller hub with Intel GMA500 graphics engine and a DDR2 SO-DIMM socket supporting a maximum memory capacity of 2GB. The 3D-capable Intel GMA500 graphics engine supports DirectX 9.0E and OpenGL 2.0." |
| April 9, 2009 7:08 AM PDT
Dave | Need better driver support for the GMA500. I need OpenGL 2.0 support badly... i purchased this product under the impression that it supported 2.0 fully as every website and piece of advertising says. Intel please fix this! |
| April 10, 2009 1:37 PM PDT
Keith | Can you please provide us with an expected release date for an updated GMA 500 driver that enables the advanced features supported by this hardware such as the high definition video decoding and 3D graphics support as described above. |
| May 6, 2009 8:09 AM PDT
Ash Guy |
I am also waiting for these drivers-- Based on what I've been able to find out the chip is quite nice for what it is-- there is really no excuse for the experience we're all getting out of it. Whats worse though is that you guys seem to be ignoring the problem completly?! I've done a lot of searching and all I can find is questions... not a word from you guys...? Surely you can find a moment from your busy schedules to drop us a quick update-- "hey guys, we've noticed you've been having problems with your gma 500 under * circumstance. We're looking into getting a fix for this out as soon as possible. Please bear with us as we continue to develop this new and exciting technology." BAM. How hard was that? ..*sigh*. I dunno... it just seems to me that when people start hacking apart xp drivers because of slight version number changes you should probably start to see a problem emerging... could be just me though. |
| May 7, 2009 4:04 PM PDT
Jeremy Saldate (Intel)
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Hello Everyone, Sorry, I didn't realize this issue was still open. I did some digging, and here’s what I’ve learned- The latest Intel driver actually DOES support hardware accelerated video (get it at: http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/detect.htm). The actual problem is that most of the video codecs (especially the default codecs) do not yet tie into these driver interfaces. However, I've attempted to find a workaround for you. At this point in time, the only (unfortunate) solution I could find was (from easiest to hardest): 1. Try using a different video player. Cyberlink and Corel (formerly known as Intervideo) sell players that are optimized for hardware acceleration. 2. Here is the unfortunate work around… You might need to re-encode your video files to use a hardware-optimized codec (currently including H.264 \ MPEG-4 AVC (using Cyberlink / Corel to decode), VC-1 (in VLD mode), MPEG-2 (in VLD mode – this format is typically used for DVD playback)). You should be able to use an encoder such as FFMpeg (http://www.ffmpeg.org/) to perform the actual encoding. 3. This is the unfortunate worst-case… Contact your video playback application vendor and ask them to add support for video hardware acceleration to their application and / or codecs. Wait until they’ve done so. Sorry, I wish I had better news; but this is the best I could come up with at this time. I'll re-subscribe to this thread to ensure I get updated comments. Best regards, -Jeremy |
| June 3, 2009 5:20 PM PDT
Dean |
i too am disappointed with GMA500 video playback. i mainly use my Fujitsu U820 to play back TV shows (.DVR-MS extension); recorded on another Vista Media Center and copied to Fujitsu Vista Media Center for playback. at native resolution (1200x800) it skips often, at 1024x600 it watchable. it works great in a small window at low resolution. i am hoping for a resolution in our near future, and that it is not abandoned. |
| June 7, 2009 1:17 AM PDT
Carsten |
Hi there, It's been a while now and I've done some digging, but haven't been able to find a (public) driver which enables OpenGL under any kind of windows. GMA500 should have plenty of power for that and there actually is a working driver set: http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3494&p=7 So, pretty-please, Intel, give us some driver updates, that include OpenGL. Video-Acceleration works for me (Vaio-P, Sony actually delivered fitting codecs) |
| July 2, 2009 1:29 AM PDT
Petr |
Hi there, I have PC with US15W(GMA500). I need driver for Linux, where is OpenGL 2.0 hardware support. I am vesa driver now, but there is software rendering and glxgears is 30fps on 800x600. Has been there hardware acceleration for OpenGL in GMA500? Or GMA500 isn't hardware acceleration for OpenGL? |
| July 30, 2009 7:31 AM PDT
David |
Hi Intel, you don't like your GMA500 anymore? Any digging for current linux drivers is in vain. Even at "Mobin" in the git tree some "quick and dirty" looking drivers are stored in the section "Deprecated (Made available for historical reasons)". Note that this linux distribution is fully controlled by Intel: http://moblin.org/about-moblin "Moblin Project Steering Committee [...] Its current members are: Imad Sousou imad.sousou@intel.com Arjan van de Ven arjan@linux.intel.com Matthew Allum matthew.allum@intel.com Rusty Lynch rusty.lynch@intel.com" Is my brand new Sony VAIO VGN-P device a "depreciated" device? - Unfortunately I realized too late that the GMA 500 support for Linux listed at the intel site is a fake (or with nicer words "historical"). I would not have bought the VISTA-bundeled device with the knowledge of a terminated linux support for the hardware. A true linux support for a GPU would be some proper code-support at kernel.org and x.org but not some old archived binaries scattered through the internet. Outsourcing the coding (http://www.intel.com/support/notebook/mid/atom/sb/CS-029326.htm) to some distributions (moblin, ubuntu, asianux) without providing real (background-) support to them is a quite disapointing act. So please fullfill your support-promissing words. They imply essential characteristics of your hardware that technically currently are not really available for the users. (eg. support for current linux kernels of the mentioned distributions) Or publicate officially the truth that the internet researches are telling us: The linux-support for the GMA500 has been terminated at 2008-03-11 (last driver update at moblin by Inuka Gunawardana <inuka.gunawardana@intel.com>) I'm looking forward to your comments and hopefully some improvements in the near future. |
| September 1, 2009 9:56 AM PDT
Mike | Hello, glad to find this thread. I need to buy a MID for my job, and it needs to have OpenGL 2.0 support. Any chance of seeing this in the GMA 500 used in the US15W chipset that MIDs (such as the Viliv X70 and the upcoming Archos 9 PCTablet) are now using? Having OpenGL 2.0 support would mean a lot for productivity using this device in the field. |
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