Intel Corp (INTC)

[Dan3]

Re: I remember when Intel bought up Digital's StrongARM technology, which later became XScale. It was being called "Bill Gates winning the lottery."

Now Intel is looking for someone to buy XScale, and it's being called "How Intel wasted billions."

I thought it was flash that was costing money and that XScale was a decent product line.

AMD is continuing to aggressively market its geode and Alchemy embedded processor lines which are much less developed, so AMD must see this as a good market with good prospects.

I understand a flash spinoff by Intel but am also confused by an XScale spinoff. It's not even a big enough deal to draw attention away from a bad quarter (should such an event happen).