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The push back, however, appears to jibe with recent rumours that instead of using Snapdragon chips for the iPad Mini rival, Asus and Google are looking on the possibility of partnering with Intel. So far, the strongest Intel chip candidate to power the Nexus 8 is Moorefield that hums away at top-speed of 2.33GHz

If I read this correctly, the article just refers to existing rumours and it claims that a shift of Nexus 8 from (unofficial) april release to (unofficial) june/july release would support the existing rumours about Intel being put into Nexus 8. So, basically, this is not a new rumour at all, therefore no support for such a claim at all.

I guess there just have been talks with Qualcomm and Intel, that's it. Who won probably is still not decided and they develop both platforms in parallel. If Intel is in time with 64 bit Android and Moorefield/BayTrail, they may win this design (since Google may prefer a 64 bit Android release together with their Nexus 8). Taking into account Intel's execution in mobile in the past I really hope they will not screw it again this time. This would be a very important design win and I bet many designs will follow that one because customers will like the result and app support for x86 will improve further.

As a sidenote: Moorefield or BayTrail may support building a super slim 8" tablet, something which is quite popular since the iPad Air release.