Think Apple is overlooking the Intel Atom processor? Think again! At a 40th anniversary Intel event held in Munich Germany, a German Intel executive confirmed that the Atom processor was going to be used in an upcoming Apple iPhone device. This tidbit came from a German ZDNet article here which I got machine translated. Here’s the excerpt from the machine translation output:

“Under an Intel-Events for the 40. Birthday of the company in the Munich BMW-world has Germany’S managing director Hannes schwaderer today confirmed what has for some time as the Internet rumor so: namely, that it is a iPhone with Intel’s new atom-chip . The device was somewhat larger than the current variant, schwaderer. This is not on Intel-Chip, but the larger display in the new iPhone.

Thus confirmed rumours in the Middle of April Switch-to-a-Mac have been published. The new jobs will probably be iPhone with a display resolution of 720 times 480 during the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple from 9 to 13 June in San Francisco, organized the public.

But they will also continue with the current iPhones design. The launch of equipment, the UMTS dominate, should be imminent, since the latest version without UMTS Support in many countries already sold out and is no longer ordered. Further information on the new iPhone devices found in the article UMTS, GPS and exchange it will look iPhone 2.0. ”

Soo.. if you are to believe this Intel executive and this article as a whole, we’re looking at a possible new device class coming from Apple – something more in line with Intel’s Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform perhaps? A device with a 720 x 480 resolution and an Intel Atom processor could very well challenge devices like the ASUS EeePC and the HP Mini-Note. Heck.. I’d rather carry that device than the iPhone – IF it had phone capabilities as well!

[Check it out via News.com]

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