iPhone to use Intel processor

By Erica Sadun

Here's a real quickie factoid about the upcoming Apple iPhone. It will use an Intel CPU. A Reuters article from this morning states that Intel will supply the iPhone's CPU. This was confirmed by an Apple Germany spokesman, "The processor is from Intel." If a bit of googling serves, current iPods run off Portal Players (5G video), SigmaTel (shuffle), and ARM (2G Nano) chips.

Of course, the real question that the most geeky among us will be asking is, "Can it run Linux"?. I suspect that the world will have to wait a while before that pressing question gets answered.

Thanks Scotto.

Update: Loyal TUAW reader Moto points us to this correction. Looks like it's the AppleTV not the iPhone getting the Intel chip.

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