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Intel has ARM, ATI would be spun off if AMD went under.


Right now, Intel and ARMs business are very much segregated. Each of the two is making steps into foreign country, but with relatively meager success.

To clarify: ARMs business is the embedded and booming smartphone market, Intel has the never-going-to-cease-to-exist high performance server and workstation market. The fate of the thing between, consumer and "office" PCs, is very much unknown.


Cloud-based data centers are beginning to adopt ARMs for power consumption reasons. If that trend picks up along with everyone using cloud providers, then I think even the high-end PC server business could start dying. Incidentally, this is a market where NVIDIA could begin to really cream Intel, a lot of scientific computing has already moved over to CUDA/Tesla (granted, there is a huge difference between scientific and enterprise applications). I don't see the same thing happening to workstations, however, difficult to move that work into the cloud.


> Intel has the never-going-to-cease-to-exist high performance server and workstation market.

You haven't been an advisor to AMD by any chance?




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