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<\/a>VentureBeat reported last July that Apple would use in-house chips<\/a>, rather than Intel, ARM or AMD, to power its tablet computer. We were right.<\/p>\nNortheast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar confirmed to TheStreet.com<\/a> this morning that based on his conversations with Apple’s design manufacturing partners, Intel didn’t make the cut as a parts supplier for the tablet computer Steve Jobs will almost certainly unwrap at a presentation on January 27th.<\/p>\n TheStreet reporter Scott Moritz wrote:<\/p>\n There has been speculation that Intel’s new generation of Atom chips was in the running for the slot, but Apple ultimately chose a processor developed by P A Semi<\/a>, a chip shop Apple acquired two years ago<\/a>, according to another analyst familiar with the so-called build plan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If Apple’s tablet is the revolutionary device for everyman which it has been portrayed as by industry watchers, if it sells 10 million units a year<\/a> as forecast by analysts, then Apple’s decision cuts Intel out of an important market. The company has locked up the netbook market — in part by defining the devices around Intel Atom processors in the first place — but there’s no doubt that Intel, whose chips power Apple’s desktop and laptop computers, must have lobbied hard to become the supplier for the new product.<\/p>\n With HP and Microsoft reportedly announcing their own tablet<\/a> at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this evening, during Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s kickoff keynote presentation, there’s still the possibility that Intel chips may power a sizable share of the tablet computer market most pundits seem to agree is about to be born.<\/p>\n [Illustration: Drew Breunig<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n