We know that Intel has made a large effort to please Apple with their offers of temporary exclusivenesses of various processors and also of the made-to-measure processors such as that which equips Apple TV, with the derivations from it used to produce the ATOM range. They have however failed with this latest. Apple would have been ready to use Intel processors in its products (probably Tablet Mac) if Intel had succeeded in lowering by a factor 10 the power consumption during sleep. Other manufacturers such as NVidia with his Tegra have done much better but Intel is not there yet.It becomes increasingly probable that the processor of the new Apple tablet is not "Intel Inside" but something else, either a NVidia processor, or more probably a product developed by Apple for its own use and derived from the ARM structure.
