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Intel Ditches Mobile Phone Processors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the putting-blinders-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Intel is planning on selling off their XScale applications processor and 3G processor businesses for around $600 million to Marvell. From the article: 'Marvell is best known for its NIC (network interface card) chips, including wireless chipsets, and for other embedded, network infrastructure, and storage processors. The company has not previously competed in the market for mobile phone chipsets. However, it says it knows how to produce chipsets for high-volume consumer applications, which it has done for 11 years. Marvell earlier this year acquired a UT Starcom business unit in China that is working on mobile phone processors.'"

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  1. In other news by Eightyford · · Score: 5, Funny

    DC just bought AMD.

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    1. Re:In other news by Fordiman · · Score: 2, Funny

      Naw. Instead, he dropped a joke grenade. Wait ten seconds, THEN laugh.

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  2. Marvell? by theheff · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought cell phones powered by standard CPU chips was only something you see in comic books...