ARM Enjoys Provoking Intel: We Lead the SoC Race

[ojas]

[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]Intel is dinosaur laying dinosaur eggs. ARM is a mammal. Guess who's gonna win the evolution race![/citation]
Actually i think it's the other way around. ARM is cold-blooded, they need the sun (TSMC) for warmth. Intel is the mammal here, and warm blooded (in-house designing, fabrication and production).

 

[Wisecracker]

Anyone seen those 2011 Oak Trail tablets?

 

[SteelCity1981]

[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]Oh, yeah... they wanted it back, they worked years on it, spent lots of cache and they couldn't do it. Then they decided not to focus on it.You maybe know that time is money. And NVIDIA and AMD and even PowerVR are ages ahead of Intel. That time cost billions worth of research and experience.[/citation]

You realize how big intel is as a company right? They didn't try for years and years what are you talking about? Larrabee was a side concept project intel was working and the main focus on that project was to show that they could compete with AMD and Nvidia. Intel has stated many times they aren't in the business to make gaming GPU's they are in the business to make CPU's. you honestly think a company like intel that has more money then AMD and Nvidia combined could develope a great GPU if they wanted to, then you're blind.

 

[hector2]

AMD used to enjoy prodding Intel too. But in the end, it's not what companies say, but what the consumer buys. Hype will eventually lose to reality (look at Facebook). ARM doesn't have anything that Intel can't get and vice versa. Consumers are like a river seeking its natural course. Each individual choice is like a raindrop that adds to that river and there can be many tributaries. However it ends up, Intel will be at least a tributary and depending on what happens in 2013, it could get really big because they have a great pipe (manufacturing) -- or they could just end up with a piece of the pie.

It'll be interesting to see how it unfolds but the ball is in Intel's hands now and we just have to wait to see if they can score a lot of points.

 

[fazers_on_stun]

Actually i think it's the other way around. ARM is cold-blooded, they need the sun (TSMC) for warmth. Intel is the mammal here, and warm blooded (in-house designing, fabrication and production).

Zingam is just a silly troll, so might as well ignore him.

There was a very interesting article here on Tom's early this year, too lazy to search for it, but the gist was that given Intel's fab strength & process lead, chances are very good that Intel's Atom will dominate starting in 2014.

 

[eddieroolz]

Well, the truth is ARM is leading the SoC market, as of now. Whether this lead remains in 5-10 years is anyone's guess, though.

 

[wskinny]

Don't mess with the giants, unless you're called david and have a high precision sling-shot...

 

[0xedd1e]

Intel is the king of CPUs