For long Intel has been the king of microprocessors. The whole PC revolution was a dual monopoly of Intel and Microsoft, well known as Wintel monopoly. Yet, during a recent period of few short years, mobile handsets, particularly the smartphones became huge. This was a ARM game. The basic core is the same yet most companies create their own individualized SoC and and use that processor. I have mentioned elsewhere, may be Intel has missed the boat on this. I was talking about Oak Trail then. This story is about Medfield processors for smartphones. Yet, ARM is so well entrenched that the boat is actually too far gone! In fact what is more likely to happen is ARM with the Windows 8 (that has an ARM version) may start biting into the PC share. According to Apple, PCs are irrelevant in this post PC era, tablets shall rule. This is an exciting time. keep watching this space for ongoing updates!
Intel Ships Samples Of Medfield Smartphone Chip -- InformationWeek
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