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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Turning Intel around requires hollowing out a lot of internal infrastructure that is no longer suited for their business goals. The real question is what Intel can do with what's left.[/quote]

Intel's near monopoly on x86 chips made them complacent.

TSMC and Samsung both came up with much better (smaller micron) silicon processes than Intel. This matters because a better silicon process enables both more chips per wafer and lower power draw. Intel is now paying TSMC to make some of Intels x86 CPU chips.

Meanwhile, ARM kept incrementally improving its CPU designs. Their current 64-bit CPUs (e.g., from Apple, Qualcomm) outperform many current x86 CPUs (maybe not including Xeon) and have lower power consumption (so longer battery life for laptops or tablets).

Now, Intel is behind both on CPU design and silicon process.

Last, Microsoft now is pushing Windows on ARM (instead of x86) to computer makers and to software developers, because MS is tired of having Apple's ARM computers and tablets out perform MS Windows systems. [/quote]

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