Apple did a bang up job accelerating their deployment of ARMv8 and A7. The question is, what now Intel? On one hand Intel did a huge mis-step and is missing ou

Apple did a bang up job accelerating their deployment of ARMv8 and A7. The question is, what now Intel? On one hand Intel did a huge mis-step and is missing out, on the other hand at the time "low cost ARM cpus" probably didn't seem like a good market for a company that has typically sold premium high end CPUs. One thing is for certain, Apple is unwilling to let Intel or anyone else dictate features via CPU roadmap. Did anyone else notice that the A7 has 1 billion transistors? That's on the scale of a desktop/mobile CPU - the latest intels have about 1.4b or so. That's a big deal. And don't give me the CPU vs GPU, because intel ships with a GPU on die.