Tom Kravitz on Why Apple Won't Be Going With the Intel Silverthorne Platform

Tom Kravitz from CNET cuts through all the hype and tells why the Silverthorne (Atom) processor is not likely to be in an iPhone soon:

"I'll go out on a limb: Apple is not going to use this generation of Atom in the iPhone or iPod Touch. Atom is a good stepping stone for Intel's low-power design teams, but it's still an order of magnitude away from the power consumption goals Apple requires for those products. Come Moorestown in 2009 or 2010, maybe that's different, but we're not there yet."

I think the door is still left open for a tablet device though. People want a good battery life for their phone, not so much a portable computer.

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