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Engadget: Intel: ARM's the reason the iPhone... sucks?
Gizmodo: Intel: ARM is Fat, Ugly, Responsible for All of iPhone's Problems [Fight!]
AppleInsider: Intel says iPhone not capable of 'full Internet'
MacDailyNews: Intel slams Apple iPhone’s use of ARM processors, says bogs down device
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News: Intel Wakes Up, Slams iPhone CPU, Realizes Apple Has Other Friends
Intel: ARM's the reason the iPhone... sucks?
Engadget —
... Okay, look, whether you adore or despise the iPhone, it's pretty hard to make a cohesive argument that it's slow or lags its competitors in offering the "full Internet." Somehow, though, a pair of Intel execs at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei this week have ...
Intel: ARM is Fat, Ugly, Responsible for All of iPhone's Problems [Fight!]
Gizmodo —
... At the Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan, an Intel chief took an opportunity to piss all over one of the company's biggest mobile competitors. "The shortcomings of the iPhone are not because of Apple," he said, "The shortcomings of the iPhone have come from ARM." What shortcomings are those, exactly? "Even if they do have full [Internet] capability, the performance will be so poor." So in other words, by "the shortcomings of the iPhone," Intel means "slowish javascript rendering." For a solution to these problems, Intel makes and unexpected and revolutionary recommendation: ...
Intel says iPhone not capable of 'full Internet'
AppleInsider —
... Published: 09:00 AM EST Intel Corp. this week used a developer forum in Taipei to tout its upcoming Moorestown platform for next-generation mobile Internet devices (MIDs) while slamming Apple's iPhone as a device bogged down by its use of ARM processors. Following his keynote presentation at the conference, Intel vice president of mobility Shane Wall teamed with colleague Pankaj Kedia, the chipmaker's ultra-mobility ecosystems director, in lambasting the iPhone as a device dependent on technology that's a full two to three years behind that which Intel can offer. "If you ...
Intel slams Apple iPhone’s use of ARM processors, says bogs down device
MacDailyNews —
... platform architecture and software, ultra-mobility group, on the device's lack of oomph. 'Any sort of application that requires any horse power at all and the iPhone struggles,' he said," Tindal reports. "The discussion came after Wall's keynote. 'If you want to run full internet, you're going to have to run an Intel-based architecture,' he had said, claiming that Intel processors achieved two to three times the performance of ARM equivalents," Tindal reports. Full article here . [Attribution: AppleInsider. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Judge Bork" for the heads up.] ...
Intel Wakes Up, Slams iPhone CPU, Realizes Apple Has Other Friends
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... At a recent developer forum in Taiwan, Intel seemingly boasted their upcoming (mobile) Moorestown platform, while slamming Apple’s iPhone for using an ARM CPU, which Intel claims is bogging the device down. Apple made the decision to adapt the iPhone’s current ARM CPU because they thought it would deliver the best all around performance when working in real world scenarios. Situations and applications that call for increased horse-power were said to improve when running on ARM’s CPU. Intel, however, thinks this is entirely wrong, and that every shortcoming the ...
Intel slams iPhone ARM processor
The Apple Core —
... ) this week in Taipei the company claimed that the iPhone is not capable of receiving the “full Internet.” Intel vice president of mobility Shane Wall teamed with colleague Pankaj Kedia, the chipmaker’s ultra-mobility ecosystems director, in lambasting the iPhone as a device dependent on technology that’s a full two to three years behind that which Intel can offer.“If you want to run full internet, you’re going to have to run an Intel-based architecture,” Wall told the gathering of engineers. He said the “iPhone struggles” when tasked with running “any sort of application ...
News: Mix: ColorWare, Aerosystems, Intel, Top Gear
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
... its new Aerosystems iPod loudspeaker in Europe. The tall, cylindrical speaker features a built-in iPod dock on top, a glass enclosure, an integrated amplifier, electronic circuit signal processing to help restore sound to compressed audio sources such as MP3s, and more. The Aerosystems speaker is available now in black or silver and retails for €449, or roughly $575. Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, Taiwan, Intel executives Shane Wall and Pankaj Kedia made comments concerning the iPhone’s performance and its dependence on the ARM architecture. “The ...
Intel Execs Say Apple, iPhone Not Very Smart
Cult of Mac —
... for the first time since 2000 to celebrate the company’s success with the iPhone, telling those who wonder when Apple will start selling a less-expensive “netbook” computer that the iPhone is already leading that nascent market segment. He also said his company “had some pretty interesting” ideas if the category continues to evolve.
And so, the gauntlet in the mobile platform war appears to have been thrown. Let the chips fall where they may.
Via ZDNet
Apple's iPhone Sales Are No Big Whoop, Says Microsoft Executive
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek —
... Posted by: Peter Burrows on October 22 The blogosphere is buzzing about comments made by an Intel executive about the iPhone’s performance as a Net browser(though as ...
Intel Toots Own Horn, Criticizes Apple's Use of ARM
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
[image] Intel criticized Apple yesterday, claiming that the iPhone’s slow processing speeds are a result of Apple’s decision to stick with ARM chipsets. Pankaj Kedia, Intel’s director of ecosystems for its ultra-mobility group, also added that “the smartphone of today is not very smart” because they use ARM. Shane Wall, Intel’s VP, also commented on the device’s inability to handle heavy processes. “Any sort of application that requires any horse power at all and the iPhone struggles,” he said, as quoted by ZDNet. He also added that although Apple managed to package the ...
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