> Footnote: The state of the art DEC chip fab (Hudson) that DEC made Intel buy was where DEC had taken the simple ARM architecture and put it on steroids (Stron

> Footnote: The state of the art DEC chip fab (Hudson) that DEC made Intel buy was where DEC had taken the simple ARM architecture and put it on steroids (StrongARM) such that its eventual descendants live on today, even powering iPhone. I don’t think there’s a direct lineage from StrongARM to Apple Silicon. The StrongARM IP ended up at Intel which marketed it as XScale for a while before abandoning it. Apple bought PA Semi, which was started by ex Alpha designers, to design their CPUs.