Intel went from "Let's try IA* for everything" to "Let's try everything for AI".
*Intel Architecture (x86), which Intel tried to stick into GPU's, phones, etc.
Let's see that again.
TI's cable modem division: Used to use ARM cores, now use Atom-based cores
ME engine for the Lewisburg chipset on the Purley Xeon platform: x86 Quark cores
Nervana IP: Lake Crest, moving to Knights Crest. The latter is described as a Bootable Intel Xeon CPU. Sounds like Xeon Phi, but instead of general purpose AVX-512, it adds NN specific accelerators
Altera FPGA: Later versions of Xeon Scalable "Purley" will come with FPGA's on package
I wouldn't be surprised if the FPGA portion moves to Atom cores. The thing is, it takes time to port to your own technology. There was an article that said Intel happens to be the largest licensee by volume for ARM cores. That's because every Ethernet product from Intel uses tiny ARM cores, and DSP needed by their chipsets likely use tiny ARM cores too. The leaks for 300-series CNL PCH say it'll use "Quad Core Audio DSP". The generic naming suggests a tiny ARM core. Their SSD controllers probably use an ARM core.
If the compute requirements rise, its likely they'll move to their own IP.
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