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Re:Microprocessor Design (2017) by Cthulhu_ on Thursday January 04, 2018 @09:07AM (#16070371)
> why haven't we seen literally tens of Intel competitor startups pop up and succeed?

ARM-based startups have conquered 95% of the smartphone market and significant chunks of TV's, set-top boxes, cars, tablets, etc since 1995, totaling at about 15 billion ARM-based chips a year (compared to Intel's 500ish million / year). That's pretty successful, right?

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Re:Microprocessor Design (2017) by InitialLastName on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:33AM (#16071051)
ARM-based startups like Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Apple? Who are these ARM-based startups you speak of?
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Re:Microprocessor Design (2017) by monocasa on Thursday January 04, 2018 @11:42AM (#16071696)
A lot of Maxim's offerings, at least, are startups that they acquired. That seems to be a large chunk of their business model, acquire rather than put in all the R&D themselves.

The specific chips I know of have ARM cores in them.

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Re:Microprocessor Design (2017) by InitialLastName on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:23PM (#16075051)
I wouldn't call Maxim a startup, nor would I guess that their market reach approaches anything like the 95% figure above.
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Re:Microprocessor Design (2017) by monocasa on Thursday January 04, 2018 @09:35PM (#16076038)
Maxim acquires startups, not is a startup themselves. A good chunk of their products are one offs from firms that won the startup lottery.
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