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I'd love help understanding how Intel's failure in the smartphone market didn't also doom the IoT market. The x86 chips never took off because they were expensi
by inlined 10y ago
I'd love help understanding how Intel's failure in the smartphone market didn't also doom the IoT market. The x86 chips never took off because they were expensive and took too much energy. If IoT is to be ubiquitous, those barriers seem even more important.
Intel's comment about IoT makes me wonder: do they think they just lost the first mover advantage for mobile & the industry got hooked on ARM ISAs? Do they still believe the story that their chips will become cheaper and more powerful than ARM if they change nothing?
- makomk 10y agoI reckon it already has doomed Intel in the IoT market, investors just haven't realized it yet. Their answer to the IoT involved buggy shrunk-down 486s with poor performance and power consumption and very limited onboard peripherals compared to their ARM competitors. (I can't even find power consumption or instruction set information for the newest ones, which is worrying.) They've put a lot of money into high-profile publicity stunts like an Intel-funded TV series ("America's Greatest Makers"), BMX bikers, Arduino boards, etc but apparently if anyone wants to integrate their chips into the kind of IoT product they're being promoted for, they can't actually get them unless they're a big-name brand. They mostly seem to be relying on the press regurgitating their PR and not looking into the details.