Recent content by ldo

Ah, I see the pattern now: downvotes for anyone who questions the supremacy of x86 and the desktop in the computing market. Let me point out something: history has not been kind to companies accustomed to producing low-volume, high-margin products trying to move into high-volume, low-margin...

Except the “hindsight” goes back over 6 years, right to the beginnings of Atom. Remember when Intel started that, claiming that only x86 could offer the “Full Internet Experience”, and that Atom was 2 years ahead of ARM? So yes, after so many years of failure, you have to admit at some point...

Why on earth are Intel wasting so much time and effort trying to push the x86 architecture into a market that doesn’t want it? Why not use their legendary fab prowess to make ARM chips? Then their mobile division could have shown a profit, for a change. But no, the corporate ego seems to be...

Meanwhile, its mobile business is in an absolutely dismal state.

Glad to see a journalist actually understand what they are reporting, rather than uncritically regurgitating quotes to try to appear “fair and balanced”.

I was going to suggest MIPS, too. As the world’s second-most popular CPU architecture (after ARM), they should be worth a shot.

?amk-aka-Phantom How good are those Intel benchmarks running ARM code? Suddenly not so good, huh?

I think those who interpret my comments as “hate” for Intel are taking things just a little too personally for their own good. Intel is a faceless, soulless, amoral corporation; how can you “hate” it when there is nothing there to hate? I merely pointed out that Intel has been stubbornly...

Wow, I see lots of downvotes against anybody who dares to suggest that Intel, juggernaut in servers and desktops, might be out of its depth in mobile. Face it, downvoters: you may be au fait with those markets where x86 is dominant, but that still leaves you knowing little or nothing about...

Only on Amazon? And only for one quarter? I think we’ve seen the same kind of achievement claimed for Nokia Lumias...

I don’t need to “assume”, I just look at what’s actually happening in the market. Companies have tried using Atom chips in mobile devices lots of times, but they have never sold well. That’s why they stop making them. Remember how, when announcing the first Atom chips in 2008, Intel proudly...

I don’t need to “assume”, I just look at what’s actually happening in the market. Yes, there is a huge amount of money to be made in mobile; why doesn’t Intel make some of it, instead of just throwing it away?

Why does Intel persist in squandering its resources trying to push x86 onto a market that doesn’t want it? Why doesn’t it it abandon those useless Atom chips, and use its legendary fab prowess to make ARM chips instead? That way, its mobile division can actually show a profit for a change.

Who says the market doesn’t want it? Just look at the sales figures.

Why doesn’t Intel mark ARM chips, instead of stubbornly trying to force x86 onto a market that doesn’t want it? Then their mobile division could actually show a profit.