The innovator's dilemma strikes again. My favorite modern attempt of theirs at innovation was the Quark line of microtrollers. They had long abandoned the low

The innovator's dilemma strikes again. My favorite modern attempt of theirs at innovation was the Quark line of microtrollers. They had long abandoned the low-power embedded market after selling off the StrongARM line and discontinuing the i960 line, both low-power RISC processors. They decided the best way to re-enter it was with an x86 processor. They basically made a cost-reduced version of their decades-old desktop computer architecture, and just hoped it would work, if they put enough marketing behind it.