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Report Future iPhone To Be Powered By Intel s Atom Chip

Posted on June 26, 2008

The next generation of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone - by which I mean, not the 3G iPhone due on July 11, but the version after that - will be powered by a version of Intel s (INTC) new Atom family of low-cost, low-power processors, according to JoAnne Feeney, an analyst with FTN Midwest.In a research note this morning, she writes that the Atom-powered iPhone may arrive sometime in 2009 or 2010.Feeney says that the Atom development program is well ahead of schedule. She notes that Intel s current roadmap includes Menlow, the 45 nm platform on which the current version of Atom is built; Mo...

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