[jmull]

Yes... or at least it could be.

Intel must have been seeing this coming for quite a while. Even to a casual viewer from the outside it's been pretty clear for years.

I wonder what their response has been and if it has a chance of succeeding.

I am assuming we haven't seen their response yet. If we have, then they are in a bad place.

If you want to be an optimist in Intel's favor, perhaps recent chip delays and stagnation is due to them pulling resources away from incremental improvements to dead-end architectures and putting them on to The Next Big Thing in CPUs, which we'll all find out about soon... ha, ha.

[sohkamyung]

Intel has responded in a way: by threatening litigation [1]. How this plays out will be known soon.

[1] "Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, claims x86 emulation is a patent minefield" [ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel... ]