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Intel sold off their X-Scale/StrongARM to Marvell in 2006. https://www.theregister.com/2006/06/27/intel_sells_xscale/ https://www.theregister.com/2006/06/27/in
by linuxlizard 5y ago
Intel sold off their X-Scale/StrongARM to Marvell in 2006. https://www.theregister.com/2006/06/27/intel_sells_xscale/ https://www.theregister.com/2006/06/27/intel_sells_xscale/ I was with Marvell at the time and we were pretty excited to get it.
- drcongo 5y agoWhat happened to it since? edit: not snark, genuinely know nothing about these things.
- johndoe0815 5y agoI think the last Marvell SoCs based on XScale were part of the PXA3xx series, which came out in 2006. Since then, the ARMv5TE core of the XScale (the original StrongARM uses the ARMv4 architecture) has been replaced by more recent ARM cores (ARMv7). Details can be found on wikipedia as usual (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale). The StrongARM and XScale were the basis of so many interesting products in the late 1990s and early 2000s, e.g. some Acorn RISC PCs, the Apple Newton 2000, the Philips IS2630 Inferno phone, Psion's series 7/Netbook, the first Compaq iPaq series and other Windows CE-based PDAs (many of which were the first mobile devices Linux was ported to), and the Netwinder network computer (which still has its own web page - http://www.netwinder.org http://www.netwinder.org). The LART by TU Delft was an open source hardware project based on the StrongARM (https://web.archive.org/web/20060207043722/http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060207043722/http://www.lart.t...) and the Itsy was a prototype handheld device developed by DEC WRL to prototype mobile applications (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsy_Pocket_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsy_Pocket_Computer). Good times...
- drcongo 5y agoThanks for the detailed reply!