Intel to license ARM technology. (WCCFTECH)

[cageymaru]

Intel & ARM Announce Historic Licensing Deal; Santa Clara To Also Manufacture 10nm Chips For LG.
Intel & ARM Announce Historic Licensing Deal; Santa Clara To Also Manufacture 10nm Chips For LG

 

[Shintai]

Wccftech is as always rubbish.

Intel always had an ARM license.

Here is the real news:
ARM Processors: ARM IP and Intel Custom Foundry... | ARM Connected Community
Accelerating Foundry Innovation for a Smart and Connected World | Intel Newsroom
Intel Grabs ARM for 10nm Foundry | EE Times

10nm chips in 2017, and its real 10nm chips

With ARM holding being a full backer with tools for ARM designs, moving to Intels custom Foundry for ARM makers haven't been easier. I expect Intel to steal a lot of the high revenue, high margin products from TSMC and whatever Samsung got left.

Intel dropped its mobile Atoms a few months ago, hence this development.

 

[pxc]

WCCFTech seems to love making click bait headlines, accuracy be damned.

IMO the bigger story here is that Intel is finally giving up on trying to make Atom phones happen. I'm not sure who Intel hopes to attract as larger customers. Samsung has its own fabs, and most ARM processors are price sensitive, so that means cheaper n-1 or n-2 node processes, not cutting edge. That essentially leaves Apple and some higher end business from Qualcomm (and LG). The obvious problems are that even if Intel's 10nm is superior, it will still need to be converted to Intel's process (a cost) and competition with TSMC and Samsung are going to limit what Intel can charge. Like IBM's foundry business (before IBM gave it away), there doesn't seem to be very high demand for boutique foundry players. Intel is led by a former Qualcomm executive now, so there's probably some (wrong-headed) mindset involved with that decision.

I don't think it will be a failure. I just don't see Intel foundry business as a big deal due to competition and relatively small market it serves.

 

[Trimlock]

Why would Intel use a cutting edge process to make these?

 

[Shintai]

Why would Intel use a cutting edge process to make these?

Because the customer is willing to pay the price and its not competing with Intel products.

Also Intel is pretty much just cutting edge process. They dont keep old processes the way that TSMC for example does.

 

[PGHammer]

WCCFTech seems to love making click bait headlines, accuracy be damned.

IMO the bigger story here is that Intel is finally giving up on trying to make Atom phones happen. I'm not sure who Intel hopes to attract as larger customers. Samsung has its own fabs, and most ARM processors are price sensitive, so that means cheaper n-1 or n-2 node processes, not cutting edge. That essentially leaves Apple and some higher end business from Qualcomm (and LG). The obvious problems are that even if Intel's 10nm is superior, it will still need to be converted to Intel's process (a cost) and competition with TSMC and Samsung are going to limit what Intel can charge. Like IBM's foundry business (before IBM gave it away), there doesn't seem to be very high demand for boutique foundry players. Intel is led by a former Qualcomm executive now, so there's probably some (wrong-headed) mindset involved with that decision.

I don't think it will be a failure. I just don't see Intel foundry business as a big deal due to competition and relatively small market it serves.

Actually, Atom has one flaw compared to ARM; however, in mobile (phones and phablets) it's a major, if not outright fatal, flaw - battery/power usage. (That is NOT a problem in laptops or notebooks, and definitely not in desktops - it's why Atom can work in all three places; the same applies to IoT - which is Atom's biggest success story. However, phones/tablets/phablets require power-sippage that other mobile usage does not (that includes IoT), and such sippage (due to no new battery advances in terms of phones/tablets/phablets) has proven to be Atom's biggest problem.)