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They did Atom. They just didn’t beat ARM.
by bee_rider 2y ago
They did Atom. They just didn’t beat ARM.
- szundi 2y agoApple was an interested customer, but rumors are they perceived Intel extremely arrogant. The chip would have been to iPhone.
- kasabali 2y agoAtom has always been a laptop chip. They tried to shoeshorn it to handhelds but it sucked for obvious reasons. Think Apple's chips started in iPhone, then iPads and finally very recently ramped up to Macbooks. Even Snapdragon has only very recently released a laptop worthy chip because of the design they've acquihired from Nuvia.
- bee_rider 2y agoBasically agree. Well, it did good enough in netbooks. It could probably have been good in tablets if they kept trying (and if non-iPad tablets really caught on).
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- chithanh 2y ago"didn't beat" puts it mildly. Every attempt Intel made at entering the smartphone business was doomed because they were years behind ARM. Paul Thurrott confirmed this with HP when discussing the Elite x3 smartphone: https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/64677/elite-x3-hp-takes-windows-phone-enterprise https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/64677/elite-x3-hp-takes-wi...