[Info-vax] ARM, DEC and Intel: StrongARM, XScale (was Re: Current VMS Usage Survey)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-12-06 12:14:10 +0000, Bill Gunshannon said:

> In article <l7rgqg$aen$1 at solani.org>,
> 	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>> Bill Gunshannon schrieb:
>> 
>>> Intel had others that have had even more success than Itanium.  Like Arm.  :-)
>> 
>> They never "had" ARM.
> 
> OK, my mistake.  I thought I had seen that they were producing ARM CPS's.

Intel produced a number of ARM CPUs, under both the XScale and 
StrongARM names.   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale> 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM> 
<http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1174114> 
<http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1266052>

Paul Otellini publicly stated Intel possessed an ARM Architecture 
License a while back (and still has at least a process license, per 
<http://www.arm.com/products/processors/licensees.php>, and that's 
likely not a complete list of licensees), and Microsoft also reportedly 
has an ARM Architecture license.   (The ARM Architecture license allows 
the holder to produce their own custom chips based on the ARM 
architecture <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture>.  There's 
also a processor core license, which allows integrating an existing 
core design.)


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