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I'm surprised that so many people don't know this. Back in the day, StrongARM and XScale were used in most (if not all?) of the PDAs. Intel could've easily had

by jotm 12y ago

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this. Back in the day, StrongARM and XScale were used in most (if not all?) of the PDAs. Intel could've easily had a monopoly today if they continued developing the technology.

achamayou 12y ago
And then they'd face regulator-imposed breakup because they'd be the only game in town for CPUs, from phones to datacenters. All that money they throw at mobile suggests they're not intentionally staying out now, but you have to wonder if they did at some point.
wvenable 12y ago
Except that they didn't own the technology like they own x86.
- jotm 12y ago
  Well, they don't own x86-64, either - and that worked out incredibly well for them :-)
  - wvenable 12y ago
    Actually they do. AMD licenses x86 from Intel on which x86-64 is based.