Apple co-founder Steve ("Woz") Wozniak was shocked by Apple's switch to Intel chips and also thinks the company might spin off the iPod division, according to [url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060223.TWOZNIAK23/TPStory/Business]The Globe and Mail[/url] (free registration required).

Woz told the newspaper that that move to Intel chips was surprising, but necessary from an engineering standpoint. Why? Apple needed a way to improve performance per watt. However, Woz says he does have some questions about "how much" the change is needed.

"It's like consorting with the enemy," he told The Globe and Mail. "We've had this long history of saying the enemy is the big black-hatted guys, and they kind of represent evil. We are different, and by being different we're better. All of a sudden we're the same in this hardware regard, so it's a little hard to swallow your words from the past."

Woz also thinks that the iPod should be spun off into a separate division, as it's distracting Apple from its focus on computers."

"We're a computer company, and we really think computers," he told The Globe and Mail. "Spinning off a separate division makes a whole lot of sense."