Intel processor can be set to the original iPhone

The head of Intel Paul Otellini (Paul Otellini) recently resigned, and The Atlantic have decided to publish it detailed biography. On the one hand, the article states that flourished under the leadership of Intel Otellini, and on the other - expressed the assumption that it could have been even better, if Paul did not miss the chance to install an Intel processor in the original iPhone from Apple.

Otellini regretfully told this story: "We have not won and lost, but the world would be very different if we had done it. You have to remember something - all this happened before the iPhone was introduced, and no one had no idea what would be the future iPhone... At the end of all, for the processor that they were interested, they were willing to pay a certain amount, and not a cent more, and this amount was below our target prices. But how could I know - this is not something that can be predicted: the predicted value was wrong, and the volume was a hundred times more than everyone thought. Although my intuition and prompted me to accept. "

January 10, 2007, the day after Apple announced its own mobile phone, Reuters quoted Apple words of an unnamed representative of Germany that Intel processors are installed in the iPhone. The publication was later withdrawn on the same day, but at the end of the year, Intel claimed that Apple was interested in the upcoming Silverthorne processor, which eventually became known as the Intel Atom. At the same time, although Intel and recognized in 2008 that the Atom still can not compete with the power of rationality ARM-based processors, that Apple decided to install on the iPhone and iPad, there is also the possibility that Intel could simply make ARM-based processors on behalf of Apple. At least that appeared in last month's rumors say that in the near future, the relationship between Intel and Apple should arise in this way.