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Intel is obviously going to use the x86 core they own so they don't have to pay license fees for embedded ARM cores
by nimish 8y ago
Intel is obviously going to use the x86 core they own so they don't have to pay license fees for embedded ARM cores
- uluyol 8y agoI believe that all of Intel's mobile networking products were purchased from infineon. So it wouldn't be surprising if they used ARM until now given that it takes time for these things to change. They even manufactured these chips at TSMC for a while.
- detaro 8y agoIntel is a pretty large ARM customer, so them using ARM here wouldn't be that surprising either.
- vl 8y agoRemember when Intel sold StrongARM division? :)
- btian 8y agoIs that the same as XScale, or something else?
- gsnedders 8y agoI presume they mean so; they bought StrongARM, later replaced it with Intel designed IP (marketed as XScale), and sold on that team. I don't actually know that the StrongARM team and the XScale team are one and the same.
- gip 8y agoThey were - I was on that team. StrongARM came to Intel when it acquired DEC. The CPU was developed thanks to an 'architecture license' from ARM. Intel renamed the processor XScale and later sold it to focus on embedded x86. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM
- aij 8y agoI remember they acquired StrongARM. Why did they sell it?
- freddy418_sc 8y agoBecause when they were planning where to allocate their fab capacity, it made more $ense to allocate it to Cores/Xeons...
- ksec 8y agoOn a 200M Unit shipment and average $0.2 per unit, that is $40M saving per year for Intel. Of course I assume any R&D cost of this tiny x86, ( assuming it is new ) could also be used in many other places.