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In an ironic twist, Intel used to make the highest-performance ARM chips until 2006. They were popular in PDAs and early smartphones, but not x86 and therefore
by pavlov 2y ago
In an ironic twist, Intel used to make the highest-performance ARM chips until 2006. They were popular in PDAs and early smartphones, but not x86 and therefore strategically embarrassing.
So Intel sold the Xscale family, just before iPhone and Android happened… To Marvell.
- wtallis 2y agoIntel sold just one of the XScale product lines to Marvell, who almost immediately dropped the XScale CPU cores in favor of their own CPU cores and later ARM's CPU core IP.