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Looks like Intel is following AMD's lead again - x86 everywhere.
Well, everywhere except Itanium's little corner of the universe...

"Leading-edge Processors Get Embedded

By Jessica Davis -- Electronic News, 4/5/2006

SAN JOSE -- Just a month after promoting its new Core Duo processor to loyalists at the Intel Developers Forum, Intel executives began hawking the chip to a new crowd – embedded developers.

Rather than pushing its XScale processor here at the Embedded Systems Conference this week, Doug Davis, VP of the digital enterprise group at Intel and general manager of its communications infrastructure group, talked up the benefits of Intel’s most advanced x86 processor on the market today. Intel had first announced that the processor would be supported for the embedded market on February 14.

And while Davis stopped short during his address of suggesting Intel’s high-end Itanium platform for embedded applications, it was clear that Intel planned to push its leading-edge x86 technology into the embedded space.

The move was not a surprise to representatives at Intel rival AMD, also at the show to talk about their latest offerings for the embedded space.

“We’ve taken our high-end processors to the embedded space as well,” said David Rich, director of business development and customer support for AMD’s high-end embedded offerings. Rich said that AMD started offering all of its x86 processors to the embedded space just over a year ago..."
http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6322545.html