It’s no secret that Intel want a piece of the iPhone market.  It’s no secret that everybody from LEGO to lingerie would like a piece of that sweet iPhone dominance, but for Intel it’s a little more personal.  Apple just bought their own chip-design subsidiary, meaning that if Intel want to make any money out of sexy smartphones they’ll have to build their own – and it looks like they’re going to try.

Last week they scoured the Silicon Valley for top-notch tech experts, and a guy from MySpace, to confer on what an Intel-equipped Android-running smartphone could, would or should do.  Since everybody didn’t just go home, we can assume no-one brought up the “Are you sure?”, “Will this work?” or the “So you want to go after an already-dedicated market segment two years after losing it?” arguments, so let’s just hope Intel execs read this page.  For their sake.