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Re:How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing by tacos on Sunday November 29, 2015 @10:08AM (#10644746)
Even Intel, of course. Windows NT started development exclusively on RISC: the Intel i860 ("N-Ten"). Shipped supporting MIPS, DEC Alpha and PowerPC.
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Re:How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing by prodmerc on Sunday November 29, 2015 @12:18PM (#10645238)
Not to mention Intel had quite a successful line of ARM CPUs back in the day - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale

Which makes articles like this one: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-arm-processors-... ridiculous.

"the unthinkable happened. Intel revealed it was going to build ARM processors."

Do your damn research, people :-)

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Re:How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing by daemin on Sunday November 29, 2015 @08:45PM (#10647134)
Well from memory Intel sold off the general purpose ARM CPU division to Marvell back in 2006 or so. Though it kept the ARM chips that were specialised for storage or networking IIRC. So technically Intel has always made ARM chips in one form or another, just not any that slot into a mobile phone.
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Re:How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing by prodmerc on Sunday November 29, 2015 @10:33PM (#10647513)
I really wanna know the logic behind that decision. They probably thought ARM was not worth it? Despite it being used successfully in Pocket PCs?
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Re:How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing by daemin on Sunday November 29, 2015 @10:44PM (#10647567)
Based on what another commented has said it seems Intel bought the ARM license from DEC, and given that they sold off only the consumer ARM chips - keeping the task specific ones - it makes sense in a way. It was so they wouldn't have any internal competition or divided focus away from their low power x86 chips - the Atom's.
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