Mobile does, indeed, make for strange bedfellows. As it turns out, executives at Intel say they are open to the prospect of working with their rivals, not the least of which is Apple. According to a published report from Reuters, Intel would consider “any proposal to use its advanced manufacturing technology to make processors based on a competing architecture.”

“There are certain customers that would be interesting to us and certain customers that wouldn’t,” Intel’s Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith revealed Thursday at an investor event in London. He said “Intel would be happy to produce chip cores based on its own architecture for other companies but that allowing rival architectures to be manufactured in its plants would be a tough decision.”