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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by alrs on Saturday April 30, 2016 @12:28AM (#11600361)
Intel bought DEC's ARM business in 1997, tried doing ARM, and then gave up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM

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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by toyg on Saturday April 30, 2016 @03:29AM (#11600786)
To be fair, it was a different world (almost 20 years ago... I feel old).

It doesn't matter anyway -- after several years concentrating their immense muscle on battery savings and integrated graphics, they have caught up a lot. CoreM / Skylake can fit most use-cases where ARM stuff would be called for, at least in the high-margin market.

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