The slide means nothing. Intel may be positioning the chip for smartphones, but the person who made the slide probably has no knowledge of Apple's plans and probably just used the iPhone graphic as it looks cool and is in the "in" thing.

Apple very well may do this at some point but the evidence given so far is non existent in terms of credibility.

No 'news' can be derived from this picture.

Especially since the article says "within a year or two." I can predict a LOT of things will happen "within a year or two."

Stupid article.

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I agree with the first two posts. This slide, taken from a presentation illustrates the market segment size and Intel's penetration, nothing more. And showing it outside of the presentation takes it entirely out of context, and thus is evidence of absolutely nothing. If the presentation had clearly been about to which Intel clients their chips and chipsets are committed to going, and for what purpose, AND the illustrated smart phone clearly said "Apple iPhone" and was not a representation of the smart phone market (they can't show every brand, can they?) then the story might have been worth publishing. But the slide clearly says "segment opportunities" and only suggests where they want to be, or to expand their market. Any other assumptions are just bad journalism. Talk about reaching...

Look up "smartphone" in Google images and an iPhone is the very first hit. That's the real news story here... "Local Intel AV grunt finds iPhone photo while preparing his bosses Powerpoint presentation" END OF STORY. (rolls eyes)

The slide means nothing, but the it's very clear that Intel is going to go very aggressively into the smartphone/MID space. They will have the best processor for iPhone like devices. Apple has developer tools already for Intel's processors including their upcoming ones. The migration would actually be easier than continuing to develop for ARM. There's really no reason why Apple wouldn't migrate. It would be silly to speculate otherwise.

I don't know why you just assume they will have the best processor for iPhone devices.

And, in case you didn't realize, the whole switch to intel was made easier (and backward compatibility the same way) by the fact that OS X applications can support multiple chip architectures. Based on your argument, you might as well say all companies should just abandon PPC macs, because its easier to do so.

What would be silly is for Apple to just decide "We're going to jump to Intel" because intel is promising some special chip, or doing it because they got a good deal. The only reason to use one chip over another should be price/performance. A slower chip that would give us iPod Touches for $150 would be a good trade-off. A slower chip so Apple can save $5 a device (without passing the savings on) is not a good deal.