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		seanmcdirmid on April 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM Opens Power Microprocessor Architecture I remember that. ARM was doing great with Newton until Intel bought and killed Strong ARM.

mabhatter on April 24, 2014 [–]

Intel was almost dumb enough to put those on the used manufacturing line from x86 chips... Almost. Then Intel "knifed the baby" by moving those designers to Atom and selling off their ARM stake... At one point StrongARM was the top of the hobbiest Boards available, long before Raspberry got their idea.

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