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How long can Intel retain those profit margins though? ARM processors are the de facto architecture for mobile and IoT - as mobile processors get more powerfu
by dharma1 10y ago
How long can Intel retain those profit margins though? ARM processors are the de facto architecture for mobile and IoT - as mobile processors get more powerful and more desktop class software becomes available on mobile devices, Intel's profitability is seriously threatened.
- jabl 10y agoYou could make the same argument about arm too, for that matter. Why pay for an arm license if you can get an equivalent risc-v chip (rtl, "soft core" or whatever it is that you get when you buy an arm license) for free? Well, not at the moment but in a few years when risc-v has matured a bit more..
- Gravityloss 10y agoIts likely Hacker News runs on Intel. There is no cloud - it's someone else's computer, as they say...
- tedunangst 10y agoPeople have been predicting the demise of Intel for a long time now. "Now that AMD is shipping Opteron CPUs, there's no way Intel can retain the server market..."