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I will never understand why Intel sold off StrongARM/XScale, it seemed like it could have been pivoted into their own IoT offering.
by thrillgore 9y ago
I will never understand why Intel sold off StrongARM/XScale, it seemed like it could have been pivoted into their own IoT offering.
- duskwuff 9y agoThat would have required Intel to predict the IoT craze in 2006.
- yuhong 9y agoAlso low profit margins
- thrillgore 9y agoWhat's there to predict? ARM has always had a stronger low-power presence than x86. Instead of hedging all bets on Atom, they should have kept XScale on hand as a second option. They still have a license to make ARM chips, but the capability that XScale presented never should have been sold.
- dboreham 9y agoBecause MBA people?