Re:How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
by rsynnott on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:23PM
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The pre-Touch iPods (the iPod Touch only came out after the iPhone) used very small chips; this just wasn't an area Intel had an offering in at all, and it would have been very low margin.
> The first iPhone was then built on the iPod platform
Eh? No it wasn't. The iPod that existed when the iPhone came out was an 80MHz ARM7. The Touch (a 400MHz ARM11) came out a few months after the iPhone, and was essentially an iPhone with the cellular equipment stripped out.
> The first iPhone was then built on the iPod platform
Eh? No it wasn't. The iPod that existed when the iPhone came out was an 80MHz ARM7. The Touch (a 400MHz ARM11) came out a few months after the iPhone, and was essentially an iPhone with the cellular equipment stripped out.