Comment by josephlord
12 years ago
With ARM different companies can license the design and include different system components on the chip. With Intel you need to take a packaged chip provided by Intel. This can allow a system power and cost advantage compared to having multiple chips. It is however a licensing/business model issue rather than a fundamental ISA issue.
Intel is starting to offer custom customer silicon on its chips. They signed a contract with Rockchip a couple months ago are now marketing that product to customers in China.