Apple stuffs Intel desktop CPU into iPhone 4S ad

Apple's new iPhone 4S contains a chip the Mac maker calls the A5. But if a pic of the beast included in the 4S advert shown at the handset's launch is anything to go by, the A5 actually contains a pair of Intel 'Nehalem' processors - aka the first-gen Core i7. Here's a snap from the Apple event, taken during the commercial …

[Tom Chiverton 1]

or, just a thought

the ad company fucked up.

[Anonymous Coward]

you've never worked on an Apple Ad...

[N13L5]

ad company fucked up - again...

remember the "Think different" ad campaign?

Steve Jobs later on:

"We didn't mean that,

that was just the ad agency going out on a limb.

If you think different, we void your warranty"

[Silverburn]

Lol

Wow..apple literally copying another manufacturers processors...the irony is so juicy, it makes fruit pastilles look bitter...

[Anonymous Coward]

Has to be a 'shop surely? Unless it's part of a deal with Starbucks for iFans to keep their coffee warm?

[Dazed and Confused]

Oh dear, poor Intel

If this picture comes from an Apple presentation, Intel's whole fab operation will be shutdown by injunctions by sometime tomorrow as Intel are clearly stealing Apples chip designs.

I like the idea of 16GB of L3 cache though, perhaps I could live without having any RAM then.

[Anonymous Coward]

Endgadget fail?

Seems this slide was only on the endgadget site/blog and was put in with their own slide of the antenna. Neither slide was in the Apple keynote, though there was a different version of the antenna with a ghost outline of the phone over it.

Other pictures of the A5 (and it's in the iPad 2 remember) show it as a Samsung made ARM with twin processors.

[andreas koch]

@AC 2030h

Beg differ, the image is in the Apple keynote video, just after Bob Mansfield speaks about the biggest advancement being in the performance at about 2 minutes into the video.

I can only be sorry for Intel now, they have it coming at them.

[Gary F]

Battery life?

An hour if you're lucky. But it will keep your nads very warm as the cold nights draw in.

[Elmer Phud]

there's a app for that

it's called iBollocks

[Silverburn]

iBollocks?

Methinks having piping hot hardware in your nether regions for prolonged periods would make the name iSpermKillers more appropriate.

[salada2k]

Since when

Can Intel I series run ARM code?

[Anonymous Coward]

Iphone 4S Video, http://www.apple.com/iphone/#video-4s

A5 die presumably at 2:05

Keynote, http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piuhbvdlbkvoih10/event/index.html

Nehalem die at 89:30

[tmTM]

The lawsuits, the lawsuits!!!

Give it six months, there will be a que of people suing apple who've burnt their face off with the new iphone.

Intel hardware runs seriously hot, I would have thought it'd take some genius effort to put it in a mobile phone.