Intel issued a correction yesterday regarding comments one of its executives made earlier this week slamming the iPhone as incapable of working correctly with the Internet.
It's hard to see this as anything other than a formal apology to Apple and ARM for comments made by Intel's Shane Wall and Pankaj Kedia at the company's Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, as reported by our sister site ZDNet Australia.
Among other things, the executives resurrected Intel's lame "ARM chips can't handle the Internet" argument and singled out the iPhone as an example of a smart phone that could be really awesome if it only used one of Intel's low-power x86 architecture processors, known as Atom.
But in a posting to Intel's Chip Shots blog Thursday afternoon, Anand Chandrasekher, the head of Intel's low-power efforts, threw his fellow executives under the bus. He admitted that Intel's current low-power x86 processors don't even come close to matching the power consumption numbers -- a vital design parameter in smart phones -- of those made by ARM's partners, which are used in smart phones like the iPhone and over 90 per cent of all mobile phones in the world. Whoops.
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