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Hindsight is 20/20, but Intel selling off their ARM division (XScale) almost exactly a year before the first iPhone was announced looks like a pretty bad call i
by lemoncucumber 6y ago
Hindsight is 20/20, but Intel selling off their ARM division (XScale) almost exactly a year before the first iPhone was announced looks like a pretty bad call in retrospect.
- jerrysievert 6y agoit gets worse. apple had apparently originally approached intel to build arm chips for the iPhone, and intel said no due it thinking it would never be successful: https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/19/how-intel-lost-the-mobile-chip-business-to-apples-ax-arm-application-processors https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/19/how-intel-lost-th...
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoIt's like Decca refusing to signup The Beatles.
- ethbro 6y agoIt's a fine call... if they could scale Atom down that low + eat the margin hit to gut ARM dev boards. Neither of which they executed on.
- jeffbee 6y agoThe only reason Intel owned it in the first place was because they lost a lawsuit with DEC. Intel has repeatedly shown that it is just not that into ARM.