Intel has ARM Architecture in its crosshairs
Intel could not have signaled its target for the next five years any more clearly than it did at last week’s Intel Developer Forum. The world’s largest chipmaker didn’t make a whole lot of news at the latest edition of IDF, but it did send a message to the legion of chipmakers that build chips based on the ARM architecture: We’re coming for you.
A few years ago, Intel tried to get into mobile phones with a product called Manitoba. That project was an attempt to waltz into the mobile phone industry by integrating one of its XScale applications processor (based on ARM’s instruction set, coincidentally) a communications processor, and some flash memory into a single package. It was a flop. Intel was never able to convince phone makers to take a risk on its products, and it sold the business to Marvell last year for $600 million.
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