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The Inquirer, former haunt of Mike Magee, is reporting in the sonorous dulcet tones of Charlie Demerjian that the iPhone is going to go x86 in a year or two, and Moorestown will be Apple's chip of choice.

With his nose pointed into the wind, he caught this whiff of the iPhone's future direction at a recent Intel / spamerati get together in Germany:

At CeBIT, we got the final piece of the puzzle, check out the slide here. Note the part in the red circle. Is that what it looks like?

Of course, Intel marketing wonks might have inside knowledge of Apple's chip plans and it does make intuitive sense that the iPhone will go up up market.

However, having lived as a nameless marketing wonk (not Intel, mind you) wandering the planet speaking to impressionable hacks, I think I have an explanation that's even more plausible—An Intel marketing wonk working alone in a hotel room the night before the presentation needed a smartphone pic and pulled an iPhone image off the net just 'cause it was the first one Google offered.

This doesn't mean the iPhone isn't going x86 somewhere down the line, but we're still waiting for some real proof...

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