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If they wanted to stem the ARM tide they would do exactly this. Unfortunately they don't seem to be able to see the value in anything beyond direct profit ventu
by wronglebowski 6y ago
If they wanted to stem the ARM tide they would do exactly this. Unfortunately they don't seem to be able to see the value in anything beyond direct profit ventures. The Pi foundation has deep ties to Broadcom, so Intel would have to start something from the ground up. I still think it would be immensely worth it.
- rbanffy 6y agoThey just need a reference design than can be manufactured and sold for profit in the 20-30 range. And make sure their fabs can deliver at volume without breaking them, which is iffy - every Atom wafer sold is one less Xeon wafer to sell.
- deelowe 6y agoI don't think the PI was the major misstep for Intel. It was the low power device revolution which led up to cellphones. Silicon has become a commodity business. Companies can pretty easily get a contract set up with one of the major foundries and begin cranking out chips in mere months. While Intel was focused on larger and more complex chips aimed at high performance compute, others were focused on battery powered small form factor devices. Once ARM became the de-facto standard for these, it was only a matter of time before Intel building it's own foundries would become a liability. History doesn't always repeat, but it sure does rhyme. There's a lot of parallels here to Microsoft and the PC industry.