Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Intel targets Atom bomb at iPhone in 2010
For Intel, the question of putting an x86 chip inside Apple’s iPhone is less about “if” than “when” – and that “when” could be two years away.
The chipmaking colossus put the subject on the table at the 2007 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco by showcasing a prototype Mobile internet device looking like a stretch limo version of the iPhone. “I love the iPhone” admitted Anand Chandrasekher, general manager of Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group. “Apple is a bastion of innovation in their own right, and we are an innovator in our own right. Hopefully sometime in the future our paths may meet”.
read it here apcmag.com