Intel boss apologises for being mean to ARM and Apple

LOOKS AS IF INTEL has had its arm twisted. Anand Chandrasekher, Chipzilla’s GM of ultra-mobility products, has had to more or less apologise for members of his workforce who used Intel’s Taiwanese IDF to slag off processors designed by British mobile chip firm ARM.

The Intel website reckons Chandrasekher has “issued a correction” in which he acknowledges Intel’s Atom doesn’t quite match the ARM processor’s battery life in a phone form factor.

Also, Chandrasekher was forced to admit that, while Chipzilla does plan to forage further into the low, low, low-power domain, well, the firm wasn’t quite there yet. They’re still at arms length.

The groveling didn’t stop at ARM either. Chandrasekher had to humbly eat Apple pie, noting that the Iphone, despite what his staff thinks, “is an extremely innovative product that enables new and exciting market opportunities”.

The hand which stirred the pot in Taiwan belonged to Intel's director of ultra-mobile ecosystems, Pankaj Kedia , who kicked off a mud-slinging war with his comments, "the shortcomings of the Iphone are not because of Apple. The shortcomings of the Iphone have come from ARM".

Chandrasekher has now said these statements were inappropriate, and that Intel reps "should not have been commenting on specific customer designs”.

Surely they meant no ‘arm. µ

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