LIVE FROM CES 2013: Chip-maker Intel made a series of announcements in the mobile space at CES today, including the launch of a new smartphone platform for emerging markets and a preview of its tablets-focused 22nm quad-core chips due later this year.

The firm also updated on its new ‘Core’ processors designed to power a “growing ecosystem of tablet and tablet convertible devices running on Intel technology.”

Intel is considered to have been slow to adapt its products to smartphones and tablets, where it is struggling to compete with rival chipmakers such as Qualcomm, Samsung and ARM.

The new low-power Atom processor-based platform for emerging markets can achieve speeds of 1.2 GHz and offers “no compromises,” insisted Intel’s Mike Bell at a press conference in Las Vegas today. He said that Acer, Lava International and Safaricom have already signed up to support the platform.

He also unveiled details about the company’s next-generation 22nm Atom SoC, codenamed ‘Bay Trail,’ which is “already booting and scheduled to be available for holiday 2013.”

Intel’s Kirk Skaugen later revealed details of the firm’s 4th generation Intel Core processor family, which he said was “the first Intel chips built from the ground up with the Ultrabook in mind.”

According to Skaugen, the architecture will offer “mandatory” support for touch and represents the “biggest incremental increase in battery life in the history of Intel.”

To demonstrate the new Core processor family, Skaugen showed a new form factor Ultrabook detachable reference design (codenamed ‘North Cape’) that converts into a 10mm tablet and can run on battery for up to 13 hours while docked.