> I disagree that it was simply an economic choice, and I think anyone who worked in the ARM embedded industry around that time would also disagree. I agree. A

> I disagree that it was simply an economic choice, and I think anyone who worked in the ARM embedded industry around that time would also disagree. I agree. Anyone watching the PDA/smartphone market at the time could see that something big would come behind the corner and shake things up. Yes that was the time of the HP iPAQ and Dell Axim, but also dozens of HTC made phones under different brands and tens of millions Nokia smartphones, all powered by TI's OMAP and not Intel. The original iPhone sold around 6 million units, at the time Nokia S60/S80 devices, Blackberries, UIQ and any other smartphones driven by ARM CPUs had sales of over 100 million. So yes, Intel just missed a chance and didn't care.