Re:How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
by rickdeckard on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:07PM
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Which was already the case at that time, with Blackberry, Palm and HTC dominating that market using Intel XScale.
Intel tried to corner that market by deviating from ARM with their custom MMX architecture. It worked with Windows PocketPC as a OS-supplier, but HW-vendors with their own OS didn't want to limit their supply-chain to a single CPU-platform.
But yes, their belief in x86 being superior surely clouded their judgement on XScale's future potential
Intel tried to corner that market by deviating from ARM with their custom MMX architecture. It worked with Windows PocketPC as a OS-supplier, but HW-vendors with their own OS didn't want to limit their supply-chain to a single CPU-platform.
But yes, their belief in x86 being superior surely clouded their judgement on XScale's future potential