Looks like a Surface phone may actually be coming

[Krystianpants]

Intel Is Putting Its Promising Skylake CPUs Inside Smartphones

Intel even mentions the architecture could run legacy apps. A lot of users would jump on this is Microsoft pulled it off.

 

[Joe Acerbic]

If the current phase of development is that Intel is testing the processors in phones, it'll be quite a while before you can buy such a phone.

 

[Krystianpants]

If the current phase of development is that Intel is testing the processors in phones, it'll be quite a while before you can buy such a phone.

Yes likely it will be 2016. This is why continuum was developed to work with arm chips to give people a taste of the pie and start the full transition. This could topple android/ios. The problem is this leak now gives them time to react. Although i'm sure they sort of knew about this and are likely trying to work on something similar. My guess is ios is going to be capable of doing something similar in the future.

 

[elindalyne]

It's not really a leak... They mentioned this a few months back at Build.