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fta: > but Intel failed to unseat market leader ARM. Intel should, if anything, license ARM designs and make the best slices of silicon out there for ARM. Wha
by igravious 11y ago
fta: > but Intel failed to unseat market leader ARM.
Intel should, if anything, license ARM designs and make the best slices of silicon out there for ARM. What I'm saying is, talking about unseating is the wrong way to think about ARM.
- petra 11y agoIt wouldn't be smart of ARM to help Intel and harm it's own ecosystem and especially the chip fabs,because once they are weakend enough, Intel could return to using it's own cores.
- kps 11y agoIntel is an ARM architecture licensee.
- rbanffy 11y agoI believe they sold that license about the time they went for Itanic.
- igravious 11y agoAh, I should have checked. I did read through the ARM architecture page† on Wikipedia and it does not mention that fact. It does say, "In 1994, Acorn used the ARM610 as the main central processing unit (CPU) in their RiscPC computers. DEC licensed the ARM6 architecture and produced the StrongARM. At 233 MHz, this CPU drew only one watt (newer versions draw far less). This work was later passed to Intel as a part of a lawsuit settlement, and Intel took the opportunity to supplement their i960 line with the StrongARM. Intel later developed its own high performance implementation named XScale, which it has since sold to Marvell." I'm not sure how much sense it makes for Intel to be both an ARM licensee and develop Atom. † https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Core_licence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Core_licence