Intel regrets comments about iPhone processor

The head of Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group has apologized for the negative comments Intel employees made about the performance of the iPhone 3G.

During the Intel Developer Conference 2008 in Taipei, executives of the chip maker commented on the performance of the iPhone 3G: “As soon as an application takes a heavy toll on the processor, performance collapses,” he said. suggested Shane Wall. The new iPhone would also fall short in a number of areas. Pankaj Kedia, who also works at Intel’s ultramobility division, blamed the ARM processor used in the phone. Anand Chandrasekher, head of the Ultramobility division at Intel, said in a declaration know that his employees should not have spoken negatively about specific hardware designs of customers of the chip manufacturer.

Chandrasekher called Wall and Kedia’s comments inappropriate and admitted that Apple has developed “extremely innovative design.” ARM also received a hand with the comment that the Atom, the Intel chip used in netbooks, cannot yet compete with ARM processors in terms of energy consumption. He did say that Intel is developing products that use the battery very sparingly, a segment where ARM is very strong. He is probably referring to the Lincroft soc, a platform that is ten times more efficient than Atom. However, a first product based on the prototype shown on Monday would not appear on the market until 2009 or 2010.