Stop the presses people! It appears there’s a new generation iPhone coming our way! Well actually that’s not exactly news since we are all expecting for that to happen.

Senior manager of Apple’s chip team, a certain Wei-han Lien has thought about sharing his job description on LinkedIn. He’s profile says he is currently in charge of the ARM CPU architecture team for the iPhone. Since both iPhones so far have their particular ARM processors ready we would assume that he should be managing the ARM processor for the next generation iPhone. If that’s all true, someone is going to get in trouble for sharing all that info all of a sudden… Oh and Mr. Wei-han Lien, please tell them about the copy paste thing. I know it’s not your domain since you are managing the ARM CPU architecture team but you might give it a try!

So is Apple getting custom chips for its new generation of iPhones? Are they getting them from the P.A. Semiconductor company they have purchased? The company is said to be able to make powerful, cheap and energy saving chips. Hmmm, longer battery life you say?

Apparently Apple means serious business. They have just placed a huge order for Samsung NAND flash chips. They want 50 million of them, and that’s an extra order to their 25 million chip order in June. Samsung will reduce supply to all other customers as they will be focusing on their main order from Apple.

In case you were wondering what the NAND flash chips are for, they will be used mainly for iPhones. So how many iPhones does Apple think it will sell? They have ordered so far 75 million from Samsung. They are all 8Gb equivalent NAND flash chips. Let’s see how the iPhone selling goes in the following month. I wonder if Samsung offers refunds for unused chips?

So Samsung, are you offering any salsa with those chips?

Understanding the value of modern-day mobile gadgetry, Intel has unveiled a new chip geared towards mobile technology use in this year’s CES ‘08. The chip is dubbed “Canmore.” It’s pretty much like the standard Intel chip except it’s designed to handle 3D graphics, surround sound and high-definition video. Canmore was probably an outgrowth of the sluggish pace of the PC world. The Canmore chip will be commercially available by the second half of 2008.

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