Intel Ditches Mobile Phone Processors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday June 27, 2006 @11:11AM 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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Re:lost billions of dollars by Short+Circuit · 2006-06-27 11:39 · Score: 5, Interesting

It was a major rat hole of unparalleled magnitude.

How much did they spend on Itanium, again?

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An event all too familiar... by mantar · 2006-06-27 11:48 · Score: 4, Interesting

Interesting... I also heard that Intel is looking to off-load their telecom subsidiary, Dialogic. I wonder what's going on with these guys?

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