Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design
This seems absolutely inevitable.If IFS is serious it needs to be fabbing SoC's with Arm CPUs and to be as competitive as possible with TSMC.Nothing forces IFS to make Arm CPU's that compete with Intel's desktop and server products.Of course, the two companies have a long history of collaboration including Intel having an Arm architecture license via StrongARM. There is an interesting anecdote from Robin Saxby of Arm about when Steve Jobs phoned him and tried to persuade him to block the sale of StrongARM to Intel but Saxby convinced Jobs otherwise.