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Re:Intel’s Ponte Vecchio: Chiplets Gone Crazy by qwytw on Monday September 25, 2023 @05:02PM (#37650565)
> They essentially gave the market to ARM

They also had the best ARM chips for years with StrongARM/Xscale (using their own cores). Which they killed because obviously Atom was going to be much better and lock in everyone into x86...

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Re:Intel’s Ponte Vecchio: Chiplets Gone Crazy by lttlrck on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:01PM (#37653380)
A 233Mhz StrongARM coprocessor plugged into an Acorn RISC PC around 1994 was astonishing to behold. 233Mhz! RiscOS flew! That could have been the future.
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Re:Intel’s Ponte Vecchio: Chiplets Gone Crazy by sgerenser on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:34PM (#37653632)
Are you sure about the timeline? I don’t think the StrongARM CPUs were running that fast in 1994.
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Re:Intel’s Ponte Vecchio: Chiplets Gone Crazy by phonon on Monday September 25, 2023 @10:51PM (#37653736)
Yeah, 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM#SA-110

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