Intel had an ARM chip division for Phone CPUs called XScale from 2002 to 2006 when they sold it to Marvell to focus on the more profitable x86 series.[1] He may

Intel had an ARM chip division for Phone CPUs called XScale from 2002 to 2006 when they sold it to Marvell to focus on the more profitable x86 series.[1] He may have believed the x86 Atom chips could replace the XScale. Xscale was widely used in Palm Treo's, Sony Clie's most Compaq Poquet PC's and the original Amazon Kindle. His "biggest regret" comment is pure rewriting of history. He made the wrong decision to get out of phone CPUs. This is probably one of the biggest blunders in Intel's history. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale