Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica) [LWN.net]

Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

Posted Oct 4, 2013 10:44 UTC (Fri) by ledow (guest, #11753)
In reply to: Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica) by geertj
Parent article: Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

The problem is, I've never heard anything more of those on the right-hand-side. Intel just don't know how to compete in that area, so they have to trail by which time people don't touch them.

It's a shame - a Pentium-on-a-chip would have sold millions some years ago. Now it's just a waste of power. I still have a NetPortExpress based on a Intel 386SL chip, they obviously knew how to do this stuff at one point, but it's just a question of power, heat and size which Intel haven't been very good at for a long time.

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Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

Posted Oct 4, 2013 16:34 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

it's just a question of power, heat and size which Intel haven't been very good at for a long time.

It was not “heat and size” per se. Intel manufactured Intel 80376 for many years, after all. But it refused to license cores and it refused to make a proprietary SOC designs on it's own fabs which made them useless in a time when everyone started switching to custom SOCs with CPU just one small part of the whole chip.