I was working as a Postdoc at Intel around 2005 when they decided to sell their ...

		gip on Sept 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: x86 finds its way into the iPhone I was working as a Postdoc at Intel around 2005 when they decided to sell their X-Scale business (the ARM CPU they got when they bought DEC). My manager said that embedded x86 will make its way into smart phones. It was a long long shot back then. I admire folks at Intel for their persistence!