Intel Exec "Confirms" Atom-Based iPhone Coming

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 14, 2008

Macrumors, citing this report on ZDNet’s German sister site, says there’s a “larger version of the iPhone” coming that will have an Intel Atom chip inside it. The device supposedly boasts a larger display, about 720 by 480 pixels. The confirmation came from an Intel executive names Hannes Schwaderer, who was speaking at, of all things, a BMW event.

Intel of course has been pushing this idea of the mobile Internet devices for some time, back to when Atom was still codenamed Silverthorn. I’ve been tremendously skeptical of the concept from the beginning because I don’t think there’s much call such a device in between notebooks and smart phones like the iPhone and Blackberry. But if anyone is going to pull it off, it’s going to be Apple.

Plus, such a device would dovetail nicely with another bit of intelligence, this one an Apple job-posting seeking developers to work on Advanced Multitouch Displays. All in all, very interesting.

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