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They did adopt ARM. Did you forget about StrongARM? (I believe they acquired it from their DEC acquisition.) They ran with that for a while, made an updated v
by Grishnakh 10y ago
They did adopt ARM. Did you forget about StrongARM? (I believe they acquired it from their DEC acquisition.) They ran with that for a while, made an updated version called "XScale", made a bunch of mobile processors with it, and then sold it all off to Marvell when they decided to refocus and shed a lot of other things that weren't core to the business.
- thrownaway2424 10y agoHistory is not the strong suit of this site's readers. Yes, Intel was selling ARM CPUs into the mobile market (Compaq IPAQ, Sharp Zaurus, etc) when Apple was still making pink iMacs.