Apple Insider reports that Apple would adopt Intel’s “Menlow” Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform featuring the new 45-nanometer (nm) “Silverthorne” chip in a big way.

The information is from the ever elusive ‘people close to the matter’. The Apple MacWorld Expo is in a couple of weeks and of course Apple will show something new. It is just a question of what. A 3G iPhone, a new Apple UMPC?

Intel is very fond of the new Silverthorne chip, comparing its impact with the introduction of the 8088 CPU. This will be something to be seen.
More details on Apple Insider.