[jandrese]

Intel can coast on corporate inertia for some time. They weathered the Netburst era alright from the Dells and Apples of the world being married to Intel.

I'm personally excited for actual competition in the CPU space. It seems like this entire decade has been in the doldrums with CPU growth. Someone needs to Conroe the market again.

[bryanlarsen]

> They weathered the Netburst era alright

They were cheating, though. https://www.cnet.com/news/intel-to-pay-amd-1-25-billion-in-a...

[scarface74]

And from the consumer end at least, that marriage may be coming to an end. Apple is probably moving to ARM over the next few years starting at the low end and with Microsoft trying to get Windows running well on ARM chips, Intel may be “stuck” with just selling high margin server chips.

Whether being stuck selling high end chips is a bad thing, I’m not sure.

[benj111]

Conroe?

Google gives John Conroe (author)

" Chris Gordon, a rookie cop in the Big Apple with an interesting sideline—hunting demons. But after rescuing a beautiful girl from a demonic attack, he finds life stranger than he ever thought possible"

I'm guessing that isnt it.

And there's a city in Texas??

Edit: Corner the market? That's the opposite of what you mean though...

Edit2: Words

[jandrese]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conroe_(microprocessor)

The processor that nearly killed AMD.

[benj111]

That makes more sense, thanks.