Earlier this week, Intel's executives Shane Wall and Pankaj Kedia ripped the iPhone at the company's Intel Developer Forum in Taipei. "Any sort of application that requires any horsepower at all and the iPhone struggles," said Wall. The two included the iPhone as an example of a smartphone that does not run the "full Internet" due to the chip used or should I say lack of an Intel chip. The company issued a statement on their Intel's Chip Shots blog that in effect backtracks from statements made by Wall.

Anand Chandrasekher issued a correction on comments made by members of his team yesterday at Intel's Developer Forum in Taiwan. As general manager of the Group responsible for Intel's ultra-mobility products, he acknowledged that Intel's low-power Atom processor does not yet match the battery life characteristics of the ARM processor in a phone form factor; and, that while Intel does have plans on the books to get us to be competitive in the ultra low power domain - we are not there as yet. Secondly, Apple's iPhone offering is an extremely innovative product that enables new and exciting market opportunities. The statements made in Taiwan were inappropriate, and Intel representatives should not have been commenting on specific customer designs.

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