Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer From: kjobesb@cix.co.uk (k jobes) Subject: Re: All Transputers and support products discontinued Organization: CIX - Compulink Information eXchange Date: 19 Apr 1998 07:06:57 GMT Message-ID: In article , alec@cawley.demon.co.uk (Alec Cawley) wrote: > In article <6gpm7q$g7l$1@mendelevium.btinternet.com>, Stephen Maudsley > writes > > >I have seen an account that stated that Intel had bought ARM licences > in > >order to manufacture the ARM (I don't know if that's for StrongARM or > >not). It might be attractive to Intel for portable low-power systems. > > As I understand it, Intel have agreed licensing terms with Arm to > continue production of the StrongArm and those derivatives already in > the pipeline, and have stated their intention to "support the product". > However, the FTC has not yet okayed the whole Alpha/StrongArm sale, so > that they are not going to get very bullish about it until it is > certainly clear. > > So far as long term prospects go, this depends on internal turf-wars > inside Intel, whose outcome depends more on personalities than > technicalities. The Pentium side of the company (which is, obviously, > huge) is trying to produce some lower power consumption, lower powered, > pentium chips, which (unlike the standard chips) they will guarantee to > have a production lifetime of more than 12 months. However, when put > alongside the StrongArm, and assuming that your application doesn't need > floating point (as mine don't), the comparison is laughable. However, > those who regard every application as starting from Windows (or even > DOS) point out that the SA doesn't rune either of those (thankfully, > IMO). There are presumably others inside Intel who realise that some > people do not work in the desktop environment and have different needs, > who have produced the statements we have already heard. From their pont > of view (I assume, because it is my point of view), SA gives them a > product ot cover a hole in the market which the pentium will *never* > fill. Alright, it may be a few percent of the Pentium market, but its > multi-million dollar market. Which of these two camps wins is not > predictable to outsiders. > > -- > Alec Cawley > Newbury > Berks, UK > Am I wrong, but are intel developing a Message Passing chip similar in concept to the transputer? This may just be a loose rumour I heard, but there might be something in it Keith jobes