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.
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.
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.