In a move that would have been jaw-dropping a few years ago, Intel’s INTC 0.57% factories are soon going to be churning out chips that use ARM’s ARMH 1.26% designs.
ARM’s architecture almost completely owns the mobile processor space. Intel largely owns the desktop, but failed to make a serious dent in mobile with its Atom system-on-a-chip (SoC) products, which used Intel’s own x86 architecture.
So now Intel has struck a deal with ARM, through which the customers of Intel’s Custom Foundry chip-production lines will be able to make processors using ARM’s off-the-shelf designs.
