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Precisely why it doesn't really mean anything right now. Let's see if Intel can actually make something out of this. Intel had XScale and squandered that oppor
by mtgx 10y ago
Precisely why it doesn't really mean anything right now. Let's see if Intel can actually make something out of this.
Intel had XScale and squandered that opportunity because it saw ARM as a "conflict of interest" internally. Intel has also spent over $10 billion investing in trying to enter the mobile market with its own Atom chips, and so far that has only led to a silent exit from the market.
So yeah...let's see what happens in 5 years with Intel's "ARM business".
- tracker1 10y agoI think in this case it's opening itself to acting as a fab for other parties... in this case, they have capacity that exceeds the damand for their x86 parts, and they have a process advantage to other foundary producers. So this could allow them to utilize the extra production capacity while they have that process advantage. Beyond this, even for designs that don't need the most current process, it could allow Intel to use prior plants to produce ARM chips for other clients as well. It's become clear that the demand for ARM will not shift towards lower power x86, and that x86 is unlikely to meet the power draw of arm in the near term.