[pankajdoharey]

You see Intel is a 50 yr old company, you think they will sit hand in hand on their bums? If the majority Industry shifts towards ARM ISA Intel will evolve, What stops Intel from Licensing the ARM Core and build a industry leading ARM Chip? I think no-one with the exception of Apple in the semiconductor industry has more resources than Intel to build a world class ARM CPU. Intel is just trying to drag x86 as far as possible because it can monopolise the architecture only AMD and Via are other two vendors who have license to build x86 processors.

[Animats]

What stops Intel from Licensing the ARM Core and build a industry leading ARM Chip?

That others can compete directly on price. Intel can probably do it technically, but will not have the margins they had with x86.

[pankajdoharey]

Yes that is true. if the Industry shifts happens then the only way they can have those margins is if they build a equally competent ARM Chip, hard to justify to the investors to abandon billions invested in the current architecture. Surely the top management and marketing would be fired. But Intel could do it.

[harpratap]

> I think no-one with the exception of Apple in the semiconductor industry has more resources than Intel to build a world class ARM CPU

Are you forgetting Amazon's Graviton? And Nuvia seems to be in a good position to dethrone Apple in best ARM CPU race too.

[pankajdoharey]

Yes I really forgot them. But my point really was that Intel won't sit idle.

[sitharus]

Intel already license the ARM core IP and used to build their own ARM chips under the XScale brand. They sold the line off in 2007 IIRC but retained the ARM architectural license.

The only thing that stops them is their will to do it.

[pankajdoharey]

Ohh yes Scale, they could revive it.