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>Famously they divested their ARM-based mobile processor division just before smartphones took off. Wasn't that AMD (perhaps also AMD)? Qualcomm Adreno GPUs a
by dralley 3y ago
>Famously they divested their ARM-based mobile processor division just before smartphones took off.
Wasn't that AMD (perhaps also AMD)? Qualcomm Adreno GPUs are ATi Radeon IP, hence the anagram.
- tverbeure 3y agoIntel divested their StrongARM/XScale product line.
- KerrAvon 3y agoYes, just before the iPhone came out and with Apple newly fully engaged as a major Intel CPU customer (for x86 Macs) for the first time ever. Kind of like Decca Records turning down The Beatles.
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- tirant 3y agoIntel sold their XScale family of processors to Marvell in 2006. I remember very well as back then I was working in University porting Linux to an Intel XScale development platform we had gotten recently. After I completed the effort, Android was released as a public beta and I dared to port it too to that Development Board as a side project. I thought back then Intel was making a big mistake by missing that opportunity. But Intel were firm believers in the x86 architecture, specially on their Atom Cores. Those little Intel PXA chips were actually very capable, I had back then my own Sharp Zaurus PDA running a full Linux system on an Intel ARM chip and I loved it. Great performance and great battery life.