[reacharavindh]

I wonder if Intel would see the obvious from a safe distance and play to their strengths instead of a death for pride.

Imagine, if Intel would swallow their pride and start building ARM SOCs… they could show their engineering prowess, and use X86 synergies to their advantage. As a buyer, I’d buy ARM cpus from intel if they also provided me a slow path for legacy x86 workloads that I haven’t migrated yet. Also, ADM is just the ISA, so, once a customer locks in to intel’s ARM cpu ecosystem, I’m sure they’ll come up with lots of special additions that then the customer would be hesitant to walk away from.

Or, they could be this decade’s IBM and make x86 look like the next generation’s mainframes - niche, even great in some dimensions but out of mainstream use.