https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-confirms-arm-investment-arm-and-risc-v-is-where-the-volumes-are https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-confirms-arm-inv

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-confirms-arm-investment-arm-and-risc-v-is-where-the-volumes-are https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-confirms-arm-investm... From the article: >"This morning, we announced that we are an investor in Arm," said Stuart Pann, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel Foundry Services, at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Technology Conference. >Arm's instruction set architecture is used in a wide variety of applications. Historically, Arm's ISA was used for microcontrollers, simplistic processors, and system-on-chip for smartphones. Today Arm-based SoCs power desktops, laptops, and servers. Arm is a major rival for Intel's own CPUs featuring its x86 architecture. But because Arm's ISA is so ubiquitous, Intel cannot simply ignore if it wants to be a serious foundry player. Intel may be dedicated to x86 for it's own in house silicon (for now), but it certainly seems that they want to be able to make chips based on arm and RISC V (though I don't know what they're doing with RISC V). Yes, there's a licensing fee to use ARM, but would the fabricator have to pay for it, or would the client coming to the fabricator with the chip design?