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Re:Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure by sliverstorm on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @02:12PM (#2514692)
The risk would be once Intel is the world's source of ARM CPU's, suddenly ARM's biggest competitor has a chokehold on the market's access to their silicon.

It would basically come down to whether Intel chose to embrace ARM, or tried to use the new position to quietly strangle it.

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Re:Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure by SlipperySlope on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @02:39PM (#2514796)
A large number of foundries currently make ARM CPUs, and a number of companies make ARM CPUs for in-house manufacturing. Intel could not get an absolute monopoly but rather a technical superiority advantage such as it currently has over other x86 vendors.

It has been speculated in the financial press that Intel might try to offset its huge annual capital expenditures by offering as much as 20% of its fab capacity as foundry services.

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Re:Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure by thebandrews on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @11:12PM (#2516038)
Intel did ARM a while back and got out. Not sure what kind of license they still have.
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Re:Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure by ephemient on Thursday May 05, 2011 @01:29PM (#2518174)
Wikipedia says "Intel still holds an ARM license even after the sale of XScale." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale

I don't know if it's true five years later now, though.

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