Editing Digital Equipment Corporation (section)

==== StrongARM (1995) ====
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In the mid-1990s, Digital Semiconductor collaborated with [[ARM Limited]] to produce the [[StrongARM]] microprocessor. This was based in part on ARM7 and in part on DEC technologies like Alpha, and was targeted at [[embedded system]]s and portable devices. It was highly compatible with the ARMv4 architecture and was very successful, competing effectively against rivals such as the [[SuperH]] and [[MIPS architecture]]s in the [[personal digital assistant]] market. [[Microsoft]] subsequently dropped support for these other architectures in their [[Pocket PC]] platform. In 1997, as part of a lawsuit settlement, the [[StrongARM]] intellectual property was sold to [[Intel]]. They continued to produce [[StrongARM]], as well as developing it into the [[XScale]] architecture. Intel subsequently sold this business to [[Marvell Technology Group]] in 2006.