Intel's shows its iPhone clone
After famously winning Apple's computer business, Intel appears to have its sights set on providing the powerplant for the iPhone and its descendants. During this morning's session on mobile Internet devices, Intel's senior veep for ultra mobility Anand Chandrasekher produced a prototype device which looked like a stretch limo version of the iPhone which he spruiked as "mostly all screen, you can read it very nicely; it's very slim, very thin."
"I love the iPhone" admitted Chandrasekher. "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".
The slim silver non-iPhone was based on the Moorestown platform, which is the successor to the Menlow UMPC platform (built around the Silverthorne CPU) due in mid-2008. While Chandrasekher played coy with specific details on Moorestown, he said the goal was a 10x reduction in power usage by the time the system shipped in 2009-2010. A slide on Moorestown indicated it would be a ‘system on a chip' which included a 45nm core, graphics and memory controller on a single die - all of which would meet his promise that Moorestown would halve the size and power consumption of mobile Internet devices.
