Intel providing chip technology to startup led by co-investor of Tan in rare deal
INTC•Intel ships Atom RTL code to Rosaic
Intel has begun shipping Atom tech RTL code to Rosaic, according to a source.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and the startup's boss are longtime co-investors.
Access to Atom technology is unusual for Intel
Intel is providing Rosaic access to its Atom technology, the building blocks of central processors, which run on the company's x86 architecture, the source said.
Providing access to Rosaic is a rare move by Intel, which has historically not widely licensed pieces of its x86 architecture or provided Atom tech. Intel's Atom technology is designed to operate with modest energy and generate little heat, good attributes for mobile and edge devices.
Intel aims to ship register-transfer level (RTL) code for the Atom processor tech to the startup, which designers use to describe chip functions, the source said.
