At that time (early 2000s) there wasn’t a high-performance ARM design. There had been StrongARM in the late 1990s, but it was sold by DEC to Intel, who killed i

At that time (early 2000s) there wasn’t a high-performance ARM design. There had been StrongARM in the late 1990s, but it was sold by DEC to Intel, who killed it off. The designers moved to AMD to work on amd64.