anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on January 31, 2013 6:45 am wrote:
> By designing and manufacturing ARM cores?
>
> This is surely what they are going to do if the market revenue
> gets large enough, and they fail to compete with x86.

I don't doubt that Intel could design excellent ARM cores. However, I don't
believe that they could design ARM cores with sufficient advantage over the
competitors to command the high margins they get on many of their x86 cpu's.
So that wouldn't give them enough profit to keep making the investments
in fabs and R&D needed to stay far ahead.