14nm, ARM, Tri-Gate would be interesting, and given Intel's competence in R&D they could easily leap-frog other ARM producers. The unfortunate thing is I don't

14nm, ARM, Tri-Gate would be interesting, and given Intel's competence in R&D they could easily leap-frog other ARM producers. The unfortunate thing is I don't see a new instruction set gaining new ground anytime soon outside ARM and x86 for consumer applications. I wonder what legal agreements Sun had in place for it's RISC based SPARC chips, and if it would have made sense for Intel to buy them to leverage their hardware division to make RISC chips for server and handset applications. (Also would've been interesting on the ZFS/SSD front.) (Of course Intel has never really be heavily dedicated to software, but buying Sun would've given them that power all at once.)