Intel plans to put Windows 8 on smartphones

"Secondly, we have the ability to put our lowest-power Intel processors running Windows 8 – or 'next-generation Windows' – into phones, because it's the same OS stack. And I look at that as an upside opportunity for us."

Intel's plans to put Windows 8 on smartphones runs contrary to Microsoft's plans for its operating systems. Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Steven Sinofsky, the president of the Windows division, said: "[Windows] Phone is uniquely focused on small form factor".