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Intel specifically exited the general-purpose ARM market back about 20 years ago when it sold its XScale division to Marvell. I believe it kept making the ARM c
by daemin 11mo ago
Intel specifically exited the general-purpose ARM market back about 20 years ago when it sold its XScale division to Marvell. I believe it kept making the ARM chips for use in network controllers and other specific purpose chips.
- StopDisinfo910 11mo agoIntel failed to anticipate the smartphone revolution despite RIM being a customer of XScale. To be fair, they only entered because they got StrongARM from a law suit settlement with DEC in 1997 and they sold to refocus on more strategic segments which turned out to be actually a lot less interesting. I don’t think Intel can really be seen as a model of good strategic thinking. But all of this is a decade before what we are discussing here. I didn’t even remember XScale existed at Intel while writing my first comment.
- kevin_thibedeau 11mo agoAllen Baum has some inside baseball on this: When the Microelectronics Group was transferred to Intel, that included the StrongARM Group. A month later, everybody in the StrongARM Group had pretty much quit. https://youtu.be/wN02z1KbFmY?si=Gnt4DHalyKLevV2p https://youtu.be/wN02z1KbFmY?si=Gnt4DHalyKLevV2p From 2:03:30 he points out that the only purpose of the DEC lawsuit was to facilitate the sale to Compaq without the microelectronics group.
- throwaway173738 11mo agoIntel has made and killed ARM socs since then. Like Keem Bay.