Intel UMP: Potential iPhone CPU?

[emotion]

Intel has announced details of their UMP processors, A100 and A110. This is why they sold off the ARM subsidiary. Could these be potential iPhone processors? I suspect maybe the next generation will be more interesting but here are the details as reported by the Reg:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/04/18/intel_intros_ump/

 

[clevin]

possible, if apple were to make a UMPC.

 

[papadopolis1024]

He never said what was in it at Macworld.

 

[dmw007]

Sounds like this could be a potential processor for use in the iPhone.

 

[gnasher729]

Intel has announced details of their UMP processors, A100 and A110. This is why they sold off the ARM subsidiary. Could these be potential iPhone processors? I suspect maybe the next generation will be more interesting but here are the details as reported by the Reg:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/04/18/intel_intros_ump/

These are for things like set top boxes with low power requirements, not for battery driven products.

 

[localoid]

These are for things like set top boxes with low power requirements, not for battery driven products.

Err... no. They're not designed for "set top boxes."

They're "designed explicitly for handheld Mobile Internet Devices (or MIDs) and more advanced ultra-mobile PCs" (UMPCs)...

Read more about that, here...

 

[StealthRider]

One of these, or a preliminary version, at least, is in the Apple TV - if I recall correctly, the TV uses a 1GHz derivative of the "Dothan" Pentium-M, just like this chip is supposed to be based on.

The plot thickens...

 

[iJawn108]

The iPhone will use a 3Ghz G5 quad.

 

[Bill Gates]

The iPhone will use a 3Ghz G5 quad.

That's the PowerPhone G5, due out next Tuesday.

 

[jesteraver]

I can't wait for the iPhone with a WiMax chip

Hopefully the next revision of Apple computers will have some sort of WiMax chip in it, constant wireless internet ftw

 

[dmw007]

The iPhone will use a 3Ghz G5 quad.

Oh good, perhaps I can still hope for a PowerBook G5 after all.

 

[gnasher729]

Err... no. They're not designed for "set top boxes."

They're "designed explicitly for handheld Mobile Internet Devices (or MIDs) and more advanced ultra-mobile PCs" (UMPCs)...

Read more about that, here...

I did. "Cuts down power consumption to 3 Watt". Totally unacceptable for the iPhone. 2 x 200 MHz ARM is far less than 1 Watt.

 

[localoid]

I did. "Cuts down power consumption to 3 Watt". Totally unacceptable for the iPhone. 2 x 200 MHz ARM is far less than 1 Watt.

Err... and I didn't say either cpu would be in the iPhone, did I?

But I did point out the error in your previous statement, "These are for things like set top boxes with low power requirements, not for battery driven products."

The A100/A110 cpus are specifically designed for use in MIDs and UMPCs (which are mobile devices using battery power, etc.) They are really only a short-time solution, and will be replaced next year with more power-efficient versions.

Possibly you've confused the two A100/A110 cpus with Intel's new CE 2110 Media Processor, which could be used in "set top boxes."