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Remember when Intel sold StrongARM division? :)

• btian 8y ago
  Is that the same as XScale, or something else?
  • gsnedders 8y ago
    I 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 ago
      They 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
      • xenadu02 8y ago
        What a brilliant decision that was /s
        • MBCook 8y ago
          To be fair that was a year or two before the iPhone and ARM processors took off like a rocket. At the time it was used in PDAs and smartphones, both of which sold in pathetic numbers relative to what was about to happen.
• aij 8y ago
  I remember they acquired StrongARM. Why did they sell it?
  • freddy418_sc 8y ago
    Because when they were planning where to allocate their fab capacity, it made more $ense to allocate it to Cores/Xeons...