Intel chief hails iPhone's potential dominance over Windows-based mobiles
Now that Intel and Apple are best of friends, it probably shouldn't be much of a surprise that Intel's CEO Paul Otellini has been singing the praises of the coming iPhone.
"Virtually every computer manufacturer and handset manufacturer on the planet is struggling, trying to figure out how they are going to compete with Apple right now," he said, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco.
He also said that Linux and Unix-derivative operating systems, such as OS X, were much better suited to ultra-mobile devices than Windows, claiming that Microsoft had been unable to meet Intel's requests to create a well-performing mobile version of Windows.
"Where I see Linux as an opportunity is in ultra mobile handsets. These things are much more inclined to be a Linux or a Unix derivative kind of product like OS X. The power performance footprint in terms of the kernel for Linux for ultra mobile is quite good as opposed to the footprint for Vista. You can get Windows CE in there, but you sure can't get Windows Vista in there as a small kernel version – which we are nudging them to do. We'd like to see them do a much more power optimized, form factor optimized kernel out there."
It's believed that the iPhone's main processor was first developed by Intel.
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