ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up

An anonymous reader writes "Low-power processor maker ARM Holdings is stepping up rhetoric against chip rival Intel, saying it expects to take more of Intel's market share than Intel can take from them. With Intel being the No. 1 supplier of notebook PC processors, and ARM technology almost ubiquitously powering smartphones, the two companies are facing off as they both push into the other's market space. 'It's going to be quite hard for Intel to be much more than just one of several players,' ARMs CEO said of Intel."

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Re:Simple math, silly!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Where are the products ARM?

[jkrise]

ARM need not do anything to completely destroy Intel in a few years from now. Intel tied up with evil Microsoft to add more and more bloat to the X86 CPUs to run more and more bloated OSes. But for the tablet PC factor, the power requirements and bloat completely makes Wintel an unsuitable proposition.

5 years from now Android tablets with large form factor will completely replace netbooks and a sizable fraction of the desktop market as well. And the default architecture will be the ARM processor and Android will be the default OS. Good riddance to the unholy Wintel alliance for good.