“From the outside, Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4S looks an awful lot like its predecessor the iPhone 4. But tear it apart, and there’s a big difference – for one, there’s less Intel inside,” Arik Hesseldahl reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“Research firm IHS iSuppli took the new phone apart and found that chips made by Infineon, whose wireless operations Intel bought last year, have been bounced out of the 4S in favor of a new set of chips from Qualcomm Inc.,” Hesseldahl reports. “‘Qualcomm is the big winner here,’ said Andrew Rassweiler, an analyst with IHS iSuppli who conducted the teardown. ‘It is selling Apple a whole suite of chips that adds up to about $14 to $15 per iPhone.'”
Hesseldahl reports, “The switch is a setback for Intel Corp., which dominates chips for desktops and servers but has struggled to get a foothold in the exploding market for smartphones and tablets. Intel spent $1.4 billion to acquire Infineon’s wireless chip operations last year in a move seen as an attempt to help close that gap. The chip giant has struggled to win business for its own Atom line of mobile-device microprocessors.””
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Yes, but everyone expected that Apple would switch to a Qualcomm chip when they unified their radio chip.
Agree; Apple is not religious about this. If the quality and price is right, they would order such chip even from Samsung.
And yesterday on CNBC Cramer was yammering about Apple and implying it’s just so-so now because of their big “miss” as a result of the Wall Street Straw Man Estimates Scam. And now all of a sudden he’s a huge Intel booster because they performed so marvelously and the PC industry is just booming! Go INTC!
But they won’t suffer fools who won’t listen to their guidance (re: low power CPU/SOC and radio integration)
So less Intel inside…
Does that mean that instead of “BUMMMM. Bum-bum- bum-BUM!”
It’s “BUMMMM. Bum-bum”?…
Now it’s more like “BUMM…er.”
Is Atom still around? Haven’t seen them for a while.