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Regarding the foundry business, they should just manufacture 3rd party designs on their depreciated fabs.

I see no problem with making competing products on the leading foundry if they are charged an amount that would make the same end profit as Intel's own designs. All I see that not producing them does is give the money to competing foundries so they grow bigger. If they can compete with x86 even if they cost the same then Intel should take an ARM licence.

ARM produce what they call R series for real time as opposed to M for straightforward embedded. The R series support all sorts of features like lockstep running and various error correction and quality of service features. The latest version R7 supports running a hard real time operating system at the same time as normal Linux (which personally I can't quite see the point of - I'd have though two separate processors would be better and certainly a lot easier)