DigiTimes is reporting that Apple is considering using Intel's Moorestown mobile device platform in a future iPhone.
Moorestown was introduced last month at the Intel Developer Forum, although not expected until 2009, Moorestown chips will be based on Intel's 45-nanometer manufacturing process and therefore promise to be ten times more power-efficent than today's embedded mobile chips, enabling longer battery life in smaller form factors.
Moorestown will combine the CPU, graphics, video and memory controller onto a single chip. Based on Intel's "Menlow" MID design due out a year earlier, it will also incorporate wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, 3G and WiMAX.
Apple currently uses the similar Samsung SoC processor which is based on the ARM architecture.