Comment by windowsrookie
Comment by windowsrookie 4 days ago
Intel made ARM chips, then sold that portion of the company in 2006, shortly before the iPhone was announced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale
It was incredibly bad timing. If intel had continued making ARM chips they could be in an entirely different position today.
>It was incredibly bad timing. If intel had continued making ARM chips they could be in an entirely different position today.
How so?
ARM (ISA) doesn't imply performance characteristics nor significant advantage over x86