A lot of confusion in the top level comments so far. This is about Intel's foundry business - IE, them using their fabs to make chips for other people to other people's designs. The foundry business absolutely needs to support building SoCs (system on chips) containing ARM cores.
That says nothing about the competition between ARM and Intel in the server or pc CPU markets. It's not about Intel's future CPU designs.
(Some people eg sitkack made the same point already in replies, just think it needs pulling to the top level)
Intel's Foundry business has long played second fiddle to the CPU business, but it seems like recently they've gotten serious about it due to the weakness of the CPU business at present. And many big SoC vendors would like an alternative to TSMC, which has become rather dominant.
That says nothing about the competition between ARM and Intel in the server or pc CPU markets. It's not about Intel's future CPU designs.
(Some people eg sitkack made the same point already in replies, just think it needs pulling to the top level)
Intel's Foundry business has long played second fiddle to the CPU business, but it seems like recently they've gotten serious about it due to the weakness of the CPU business at present. And many big SoC vendors would like an alternative to TSMC, which has become rather dominant.