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Um, yep. If the average "PC" turns from a $500-750 laptop to a $200-500 tablet, Intel's going to lose a lot of business. It can't afford to live on Atom chip margins.

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That's assuming that Intel gets a decent cut of tablet market at all. Intel making a decent low power CPU isn't going to make Arm go away, and Arm is only going to work its way up the ladder from its current dominance in the embedded and mobile space.

Arm exists because they went after a market Intel didn't care about. Intel was slow to react to the shift in market, but they have reacted and they are focused now. It is only a matter of time before Intel dominates the market. Their latest Atom processors are already better than Arms. They may not get the same cut from mobile processors, but they will have larger volume and there is an emerging market in the hybrid tablet space. The Surface Pro is considered a tablet but it still has an i5 in it. If Microsoft didn't screw it up so much it could have been a huge success.

If any company can touch Intel fabrication process, then maybe I will start to be worried about my Intel stock.

>Their latest Atom processors are already better than Arms.

Source? Every review I've seen says they still struggle to beat ARM on power/performance/price.

I've absolutely not heard that their mobile chips are "better" by any margin.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6536/arm-vs-x86-the-real-showd...

On the horizon: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6790/intels-clover-trail-dualc...

I really wish people would stop using Javascript benchmarks as a CPU benchmark, especially across architectures. The amount by which they vary between browsers on the same device should make it obvious they aren't a good general-purpose benchmark.

I mean, Kraken for one says my laptop is 60% faster than itself.

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