Intel will not switch to ARM, or at least not until it's too late (kind of like Nokia with WP7 or RIM with QNX/BB10). They won't switch because their cost stru

Intel will not switch to ARM, or at least not until it's too late (kind of like Nokia with WP7 or RIM with QNX/BB10). They won't switch because their cost structure is higher than ARM's cost structure. Their whole company is used to selling expensive chips with a lot higher profit/chip. So they will not know how to sell these chips properly and be just as profitable. They will also have a conflict of interest with x86. Adopting ARM means admitting defeat for x86, and their x86 business will go down that much faster - unless they intentionally slow down the ARM business, in which case, what's the point of trying to compete with ARM chips anyway? This is why they failed with the Xscale ARM division, too. Intel can't sell dirt cheap processors that would make them billions per quarter, and they can't do it without hurting their x86 business. Why do you think Atom is their poorest brand ever and has stagnated so much? Because they never wanted it to become good enough for low-end laptops, and they only started working on energy efficiency much harder once they saw the ARM threat.