Last fall, Intel has brought to the Chinese state enterprise Tsinghua Unigroup $ 1,5 B. Intended purpose funds has been a requirement to help the spread of China's x86-compatible phone platforms Intel. At this stage - it's SoC SoFIA. Specifically, Intel began to cooperate with the two developers owned by Tsinghua Unigroup - Spreadtrum Communication and RDA Microelectronics. Both developer creates their own ARM-based processors for entry-level smartphones .
Today appeared an exclusive interview with the president of Spreadtrum, Leo Lee , in which an attempt is made to understand the deeper meaning of this deal for Intel. Spreadtrum President openly said that no one signed the agreement for his company is under no obligation to develop single-chip assembly with x86-compatible cores. Intel company has some interesting developments, and some of them probably, Spreadtrum will use to create some new products.
Spreadtrum company believe that Intel used to when all people used exclusively its development. It's time to grow up, and work for people. Moreover, the head of Spreadtrum sure that in 2016 his company will be able to take advantage of 14-nm FinFET process technology for SoC production .
The bottom line there is a suspicion that the purchase of Intel's 20% stake in Tsinghua Unigroup were some reflex phenomenon - a reaction to the clearly losing ground on the budget front. The Chinese like doing cheap ARM-based processors, and will make them, and Intel will write again in a huge amount of loss.