Intel Licenses ARM Technology to Boost Foundry Business
Intel&#x27;s always maintained some of the leading fabs with technology usually a fair bit ahead of their competitors, but it is losing an entire segment of the processor design space.  It is pretty big news that instead of continuing to make their own plays at these markets, (which haven&#x27;t worked out) they&#x27;re allowing others to ship their own ARM designs using their fabs.  Intel&#x27;s competitive advantage has always had a lot to do with the integration and bundling of world class fabrication technology and their processor designs pushing each other forward.<p>They&#x27;ve increasingly broken this cycle in the past few years, with the final demise of tick-tock and the continued number of devices which opt for ARM.<p>It&#x27;s another in a series of developments that are reshaping the processor market and slowly moving Intel from a dominant position to a supportive one.<p>There&#x27;s still a large number of brilliant engineers and amazingly competent people there.  I wonder when they&#x27;re gonna start really fighting for their future.