AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process

Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by StopDisinfo910 on Friday October 31, 2025 @08:36AM (#45771353)

Intel failed to anticipate the smartphone revolution despite RIM being a customer of XScale. To be fair, they only entered because they got StrongARM from a law suit settlement with DEC in 1997 and they sold to refocus on more strategic segments which turned out to be actually a lot less interesting. I don’t think Intel can really be seen as a model of good strategic thinking.

But all of this is a decade before what we are discussing here. I didn’t even remember XScale existed at Intel while writing my first comment.

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Re:AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on T... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday October 31, 2025 @02:11PM (#45774951)

Allen Baum has some inside baseball on this:

  When the Microelectronics Group was transferred to Intel,
  that included the StrongARM Group. A month later, everybody
  in the StrongARM Group had pretty much quit.

https://youtu.be/wN02z1KbFmY?si=Gnt4DHalyKLevV2p

From 2:03:30 he points out that the only purpose of the DEC lawsuit was to facilitate the sale to Compaq without the microelectronics group.

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