Intel Germany supremo Hannes Schwaderer just slapped his todger on the bar and demanded service, announcing a 720x new iPhone featuring Intel’s Atom chip. This is according to the Internet. From ZDNet Germany, as translated by MacRumors:
“As part of an Intel event for the 40th birthday of the semiconductor company at Munich’s BMW World, Germany managing director Hannes Schwaderer confirmed today what has long been a rumor on the Internet: namely, that there is an iPhone with Intel’s new Atom chip. The device is slightly larger than the current version, Schwaderer said. That is not, however, because of the Intel chip, but because of the larger display used in the new iPhone.”
Intel’s been flashing its MID prototype around at conferences for a while. It’s clearly modeled on the iPhone.
If this is for real, it’s either the dumbest intentional leak of all time, of a gaffe of monumental proportions. If it isn’t, it could be a use of “iPhone” as a generic reference to its class of device: a linguistic development that can render trademarks unenforceable and which will displease pharaoh.
iPhone kommt mit größerem Display und Intel Atom [ZDnet.de via MacRumors]
Of all time? Monumental proportions? Really? It’s a phone. It’s not the ANYTHING of all time.
This posts’s reflections concern the little flatland-like world of phones, and should not be taken to protrude into any meaningful sphere of life.
Ah. Well, then, monumental it is.
fscklog, one of the better German Apple-themed blogs, says in http://www.fscklog.com/2008/05/intel-stellt-an.html that the article on ZDNet misrepresents what was being said: i.e., that Intel hopes to have manufacturers of mobile internet-type device thingies (like the iPhone) use the Atom processor. Fscklog claims they contacted Intel spokesman Mike Cato and got that clarification.
Fnarf, he meant monumental as in the Stonehenge from This is Spinal Tap.