Intel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup — firm reportedly sharing RTL, enabling customer to build its own custom processors based on x86 general-purpose cores

Intel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup — firm reportedly sharing RTL, enabling customer to build its…

Intel licensed Atom x86 cores and RTL to RosaicLabs (startup, $10M seed round) for custom chip design. First core license in a decade; Intel is signaling x86 licensing reopening to counter Arm/RISC-V in embedded markets.