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It's not for Apple, it's for Microsoft.

• tdicola 11y ago
  That's a heck of a bet for Intel to make considering Windows phone is 2% global market share and shrinking. Not trying to bash Windows phone either (I owned a WP7 device), it's just the reality that even MS is starting to come to grips with.
  • LoSboccacc 11y ago
    http://cdn.bgr.com/2015/04/computer-shipments-2015.png?w=624 http://cdn.bgr.com/2015/04/computer-shipments-2015.png?w=624 intel needs a way out of the shrinking pc market. gonna be profitable for a long time, but the tablet/smartphone market is a pie so big establish a foothold is gonna be strategic, even if the r&d cost is high (still article was mostly - but the writing on intel wanting mobile was on the wall for a long time ) also http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-details-new-processors-aimed-at-cracking-the-mobile-market/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-details-new-processors-ai...
    • klodolph 11y ago
      Intel is already out of the shrinking PC market. Servers are incredibly popular. Even cloud servers use Intel CPUs, and when people buy more cell phones, companies buy more servers. A strategic foothold for x86 might be out of the question now, even given Intel's deep pockets, but that doesn't mean that they can't manufacture ARMs on their 14nm process, and the investors know this.