lol the funny thing about the title when I read it was "yeah, and they freaken' get it. They are not waiting till the company is tanking to think 'omg how do I salvage'? They are being pro-active shooting in every direction hoping for a hit."
"Intel has almost no presence in smartphones or tablets." which is an important quote. Because if the majority of the business will be smartphones/tablets then ARM wins by a leap. And if ARM wins, then why not move ARM into the PC market?
Problem with Intel: Architecture + Manufacturing. Their Architecture is not the best, their manufacturing is, gives em an edge. However as ARM architecture gets up there, their partners are helping with the manufacturing innovation. Its like 1 giant fighting an army of slightly smaller giants.
It seems to me that the manufacturing strength would be an very strong option for Intel in the future. Even in the event that ARM completely dominates the CPU market, Intel could still profitably function as a fab producing ARM processors.
[+] [-] dlikhten|14 years ago|reply
"Intel has almost no presence in smartphones or tablets." which is an important quote. Because if the majority of the business will be smartphones/tablets then ARM wins by a leap. And if ARM wins, then why not move ARM into the PC market?
Problem with Intel: Architecture + Manufacturing. Their Architecture is not the best, their manufacturing is, gives em an edge. However as ARM architecture gets up there, their partners are helping with the manufacturing innovation. Its like 1 giant fighting an army of slightly smaller giants.
[+] [-] jdrols|14 years ago|reply