Intel’s Concept Moorestown iPhone / UMPC: single chip memory, video encode/decode & graphics

When we are talking Apple iPhone you get the feel of the iPod, where every MP3 player after it was compared to the iPod.

Now I am not 100% that the iPhone will have the same impact in the phone market, but you get that feeling.

So when you here about Intel developing a concept iPhone, you think here we go again but this could not be more wrong.

Intel’s “future technology” seems to be what the iPhone should have had, the concept phone users the Moorestown processor which is said to be ready around 2009 or 2010.

This 45nm processor can integrate a memory controller, graphics and a video encode/decode engine all on a single chip it.

This means that many devices that were once only “concept” will have a much better chance of becoming reality with the Moorestown processor.

We could start seeing a super-slim touchscreen UMPC with phone capabilities, this same device could even run for 24 hours before needing a recharge.

So maybe iPhone 2 then, as Intel have been reported to of said “the chip the iPhone would have wanted”.

Source: Phones Review

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