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Article: Low-Powered Chip Sets New Course for Intel.
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- May 3, 1999
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May 3 -- Perhaps the oddest portion of the 1997 legal settlement between Intel Corp. and Digital Equipment Corp. was Intel's acquisition of the StrongArm processor design. Odd because it didn't seem that Intel -- creator of the most successful microprocessors in history -- would have much use for a microprocessor it didn't design.
Today, however, Intel will unveil a revamped StrongArm, putting the low-powered chip at the forefront of the Santa Clara chip company's plans for the digital appliance market. And what Intel isn't saying about StrongArm could be even more significant.
Sources familiar with the ...