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Future iPhone to be x86 powered, Intel inside

Categories: Apple, CeBIT 2008
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 at 10:21 AM

Now I’m not saying the next iPhone due to come out this year will have an Intel chip inside, but the one after that, think summer 2009, is looking like a strong candidate for Intel’s upcoming Moorestown chip. This slide from my friend Charlie over at TheINQ pretty much says it all:

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • KevinD

    Hopefully, you’re joking, just because someone made a powerpoint slide using pictures they grabbed off the web. (Like the other devices on that page.)

  • jerry

    Is the product in the top left a Newton?
    :lol:

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    it isn’t news that Intel is trying to compete with ARM, by mid to late next year they should have chips that are competitive enough, in terms of power draw, to fit into something iPhone shaped.

    knowing how cozy Intel and Apple are, i wouldn’t be surprised if they got first dibs on the new chip.

  • Moosex

    Well I can see the Nokia N800 there as part of “Generation 1″, and it sure is not using Intel chip. Someone just putting some exemplary images together, which were never indented to spread beyond the given presentation…

  • viipottaja.

    Exactly. Some source critique would not hurt. Your subject line doesn’t even have a “?” in it as if you were reporting a fact.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    you don’t know how far back me and charlie go. if he says it’s going to happen then it’s going to happen. whether it is 2009 or 2010, it will happen.