Re:How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
by GeekyBear on Saturday August 31, 2024 @03:11PM
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> TSMC doesn't have to pay ARM licensing costs
Intel already had an ARM license they had used to create their XScale line.
They decided to sell that line of business off to Broadcom instead of fabbing a chip for Apple.
Later they decided their failure to enter the mobile device market was a big enough error that they burned through about a billion dollars in a failed attempt to push x86 as a viable alternative to ARM for mobile devices.
Intel already had an ARM license they had used to create their XScale line.
They decided to sell that line of business off to Broadcom instead of fabbing a chip for Apple.
Later they decided their failure to enter the mobile device market was a big enough error that they burned through about a billion dollars in a failed attempt to push x86 as a viable alternative to ARM for mobile devices.