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Didn't Intel sell the ARM division to Marvell or something?
by joshu 17y ago
Didn't Intel sell the ARM division to Marvell or something?
- gvb 17y agoYes, there is irony in the world today. Intel acquired StrongARM (renamed XScale) with an ARM CPU license from DEC. IIRC, they had a development license which meant that they (now Marvell) could modify the instruction set. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale So Intel had an unusually permissive license to a very popular, very low power CPU architecture and they sold it (June 2006). A few years later, they are struggling to recreate that low power capability in their x86 architecture.
- blasdel 17y agoYou're right only in that they shouldn't have sold it -- they should have sat on it. They can't let ARM or any non-x86 architecture win in a PC-replacement market.