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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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  2. lost billions of dollars by vivek7006 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Intel has lost billions of dollars since late 90s on this. EE-times gives some more details http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml ?articleID=189602065

    During the course of the past decade Intel invested between $3 billion and $5 billion in the assets it sold to Marvell, says Will Strauss, an analyst for Forward Concepts. Intel spent nearly $2 billion on a single acquisition to bolster those communications chip efforts. It was a major rat hole of unparalleled magnitude.

    1. Re:lost billions of dollars by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It was a major rat hole of unparalleled magnitude.

      How much did they spend on Itanium, again?

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    2. Re:lost billions of dollars by DAldredge · · Score: 5, Informative

      Between 7 - 12 Billion USD.

  3. Re:Headline is stupid by nerdyH · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have another drink, drinkypoo, and make more blather about nothing. H/L is accurate. Intel also sold baseband phone processors to Marvell. Though PXAs are used in PDAs, mobile phones are probably 95 percent or more of their volume, I'd guess. Intel did not sell the whole XScale line... just the xscale's that go into phones.