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Intel/AMD could produce an ARM processor that could find a market. Intel did have an ARM processor line, and it did have a market. They acquired the StrongAR
by kjs3 6y ago
Intel/AMD could produce an ARM processor that could find a market.
Intel did have an ARM processor line, and it did have a market. They acquired the StrongARM line from Digital Equipment and evolved it into the XScale line. What Intel didn't want was for something to eat into it's x86 market, and Windows/ARM didn't exist. So they evolved ARM in a different direction than Apple later did. It was very successful in the high-performance embedded market.
- AtlasBarfed 6y ago"It was very successful in the high-performance embedded market." As long as you don't define that market as "billions of mobile smartphones". I remember StrongArms in PDAs back in the early 2000s. They should have had ready processors for the smartphone, but IIRC they kept pushing x86 on phones.
- kjs3 6y agoFair point. I forgot about the PXA line. I suspect, however, more of the IOP & IXP embedded processors were sold.