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Intel could make tons of money by licensing their IP so 5-10 USD SoC could flood the IoT market.
by faragon 9y ago
Intel could make tons of money by licensing their IP so 5-10 USD SoC could flood the IoT market.
- sigstoat 9y agointel IP just doesn't even offer anything in that space. who cares about x86-compatibility when you're doing new firmware? it's a horrorshow compared to what ARM provides. i don't need AVX extensions or whatever, i need sane and plentiful interrupts, a reasonable memory model, simple IO, etc.
- joezydeco 9y agoSo, an Intel 8051.
- sigstoat 9y agolacks "sane and plentiful interrupts" and "reasonable memory model". so, no.
- joezydeco 9y agoOkay, but could the 8051 have made a decent foundation for a small, cheap 8/16 bit core? Intel could have literally given the parts away. The obvious answer is that Intel couldn't monetize it like the x86, so there we go.
- Narishma 9y agoClones/derivatives of which are available from dozens of companies.