Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

The decision to sell StrongARM was an absolute disaster and IMO, set Intel back by 10 years!

Dude your hindsight is severely broken.

The StrongARM MPU was a technically excellent design - it ran at 3-5 W
and outperformed PowerPC and MIPS processors consuming may times
that. But is was an ARM chip at a time when the market for ARM cores/
chips was for devices in the mW range. The utter vast majority of ARM
customers back then wanted cheap chips and didn't care about the
performance of StrongARM and just wouldn't pay for it. At most they
wanted XX MIPS at $Y dollars, not XXX MIPS at $YY dollars. It was also
an non-integrated MPU with no chipset when ARM customers wanted
(and still do) ASICs and SoCs.

The StrongARM was a technical achievement as a CPU core but an
utter business failure as a product. It was a failure under DEC. It was
a failure under Intel.

Your clouded rose coloured memories of StrongARM as some huge
success just waiting to happen but fumbled by Intel is just a bunch
of crap. Wake up and give your head a shake.