14 DAY TRIAL // There were, in the past, several instances when Intel was supposedly preparing to start the manufactur of ARM-based processors, only for the rumors to be debunked. Here we go again.
Well, maybe not quite. There is, as always, a chance that this time, the rumor will turn out true.
And the rumor in question is that Intel might soon start making ARM microprocessors.
Not for itself, though, but for Marvell. Since it opened its foundry business to others (like TSMC and Globalfoundries make chips for various companies), it's possible that x86 won't be the only architecture it's offering to work at.
So we suppose Intel isn't really entering the ARM business after all, just like it didn't do so back in 2013, when it accepted orders from Altera for Stratix 10 system-on-chips (field-programmable gate array (FPGA) + four ARM Cortex-A53 general-purpose cores using 14nm tri-gate manufacturing tech).
Marvell makes various application processors, embedded processors, controllers, broadband chips, etc., almost all of them with ARM cores.