Chip firm Intel is making a foray into the system on a chip world - not for the first time, we might add.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel will use the Pentium M for eight SOCs it's darning and will try and sell them into the embedded market for applications such as cash registers and the like.

But it faces a lot of embedded competitors in this particular sector and its SOCs will be quite expensive.

Intel (40) often tries out ideas because it can afford to try them out. But  that doesn't necessarily mean it will be successful.  The number of projects it's announced that have come to mean very little in the end is legion.

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