[devx]

Intel will be in a lot of trouble soon (within 2-3 years).

Forget the Core line chips. That's irrelevant. It will remain a cash cow for the next few years, but a rapidly shrinking cash cow nonetheless. They'll move upmarket with them, until there's nowhere to move to.

ARM chips' improvements over the next years will make them "good enough" for most people, and Intel's Core chips which cost 10x more (literally) will be very uncompetitive in that environment.

Their only solution is to fight with Atom, but so far no success there, and even if they succeed, it means their profits will lower dramatically, and they need to survive as a company with much lower revenue and profit, which means the "all-powerful Intel" of the past will be but a faint memory in the future.

[drill_sarge]

If a company has enough resources (financial and know-how) to pull out the hammer when needed, it's probably Intel. They have the best people, the best manufacturing, the most experience etc. Just look how they evolved shitty Atom processors in something competitive (bail trail). Intel has a long breath. And once they made arm processors too.