When Intel gets bothered, they get grumpy

So a fact that AMD has already learned, it seems that Apple is going to get pushed a bit by the gorilla.

Intel to compete with iPhone

It looks like since Samsung is the provider of chips for the iPhone instead of Apple's new favorite CPU company, Intel is offering to supply competitors with their own chips to beat down the iPhone. Interesting to say the least.

I wonder what company they'll get grumpy with next. A Microsoft endorsement of AMD chips as the best things for Vista could really get Intel irritated.

Can you say "Doesn't play well with others?" Apple is a partner.

I guess it's Amdows (am - doze) now instead of Wintel.

That's very clever... it sure seems like that's what AMD is doing, dozing off while Intel rolls right on past (over) them. Hope they wake up soon.

Apple wont ever buy cpus from AMD,becouse apple is a "high roller" company, by that i mean they dont play with companies that they consider lower class...and compared to intel and ibm, amd is very lower class

Do they have some obligation to only make chips for Apple? That's like saying, since AMD went Dell, they can only make stuff for Dell

Hehe. That's pretty cute.

Meh, I think it all stems down to that Apple survives on the stupidity of its consumers.

lol i hate to say it...but i mostly agree with this statement...

As a kid I used to be a big Apple fan. Their strength is in product interaction/user-friendliness; underlying technology is not their ultimate goal. In many cases, it's too cumbersome for a PC vendor to compete with Apple in this regard because Apple can smoothly integrate designs into the OS and hardware at the same time, whereas a PC vendor would have to collaborate with many suppliers to accomplish the same. It's also much easier for Apple to switch core technologies - I recall it has done so twice, once to PowerPC and another to Intel x86.

Intel here is offering a mobile phone processor, but there are already quite a few out there, and they don't really make or break a cell phone. It's up to some mobile phone giant to decide that Intel's processor is best and then to write some good firmware around it - because they are the ones who will be competing with Apple. Considering that Apple has migrated their entire OS twice, who's to say they can't change the iPhone processor to Intel's in the future?

I don't view this announcement as a threat to Apple, really.