“With production time of its Tablet approaching, Apple has been making its final decisions on which components will go into the device, which is due out in March,” Moritz reports. “Unfortunately for Intel, it didn’t make the cut, says Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar, based on conversations with Apple’s design manufacturing partners.”
Moritz reports, “There has been speculation that Intel’s new generation of Atom chips was in the running for the slot, but Apple ultimately chose a processor developed by P A Semi, a chip shop Apple acquired two years ago, according to another analyst familiar with the so-called build plan.”
Moritz reports, “If you believe that the closely-watched Apple Tablet will reshape the mobile computing landscape, then the snub deals Intel a significant defeat.”
Full article here.
SHOCKER! Not!
TheStreet.com has some of the worst reporters on the planet and it’s a perfect place for Scott to work.
The product is not even been disclosed and we are given cost breakdown, processor type, and a slew of opinions about what it will and will not do!
Where are these wizards when you need to buy stock so you can only make money and not lose any.
No where to be found- yet sees all! Gawwd!
Think PA Semi see-ers of the future! They are brillant, to coin a phrase.
But at least he got it right about the processor. It’ll be a PA Semi design, like I’ve been sayin all along. Wait & see.
Choosing not to go intel will help keep the tablet OS off of netbooks and other tablet devices from winbox makers. We all know that if an intel chip was inside then every cheap SOB out there would be hacking the OS to run on a $300 POS WinTablet.
This is a good choice to guard against a HackinTablet showing up.
But P. A. Semi does not manufacture the chips, they need a partner to do that and no reason that that partner isn’t Intel.
I never doubted the tablet would be equipped with a PA Semi designed chip.
Moritz is a well-known stock manipulator as he works for Jim Cramer. TheStreet.com is owned by Cramer and his lackeys.
I guess his angle is a short position on Intel. Remember this is the guy who floated the rumor that Apple was trying to sell 1M iPhones back when it launched in 2007, which we know he totally made up.
More navel gazing.
Any decision to use or not use Intel’s processor would have been made a long time ago, NOT “With production time of its Tablet approaching, Apple has been making its final decisions on which components will go into the device.”
The so-called “analyst” obviously never stopped to consider that Apple would never have bought PA Semi if they intended to use Intel chips in future mobile devices.
@Jeff
Intel is not making the PA Semi chip for Apple.
This is good news. More competition is a good thing..
I am so sick of analysts.. I don’t even understand why such an occupation needs to exist. Every word that comes out of their mouths is little more than baseless speculation. Even more frustrating is how these analyst predictions are reported by the general media as ‘news’ and make indications that what is being speculated is in any way based on fact.
Hell, for all we know, Apple has no plans at all for a Tablet computer, and if they don’t produce one, the stock will tank because Apple didn’t deliver on a promise it never made.
I honestly wish these supposed ‘experts’ would go out and find real jobs that actually serve some sort of purpose…
Didn’t we hear reports of Samsung being selected to produce any PA Semi designs?
I don’t understand this. Won’t this create compatibility issues between Apple tablets and other tablets like we saw in the ’90s between Macs and PCs? Are we seeing history repeat itself here?
So, Apple is just now choosing the components for the iSlate…….Right
I’m just amazed at all this information that’s coming out about a product that hasn’t been announced. How does anyone know what processor, what OS, what anything since we don’t even know what it is to begin with!
Let’s all stop this non-sense and just wait for the 26th and find out what it is Apple has to say period.
“the so-called build plan.”
Why is it the ‘so-called’ business plan? Were you short on the word count?
@sn
Let’s rephrase what you said. “Won’t this create compatibility issues between Apple iPhones and other cell phones?”
Now do you understand?
Gee, I wish I could make a living by omphaloskepsis, too.
I’m not going to buy this so called tablet that apple has. I’ve got
an iphone, an ipod classic, apple tv and a imac. I don’t need Itablet!!!!!!
Duh!
This isn’t news, after Apple bought PA Semi, Steve Jobs said they were going to develop their own mobile solutions in house.
The “tablet” wouldn’t be revealed until these designs were production ready. And by designs, one for the “tablet” and the other for the iPhone.
Curious if the anticipated device looks more like an iphone on steroids or a pint size version of, half a macbook air…
When — oh, when — will idle speculation about Apple end?
Anybody got any guesses?