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Re:Intel dismisses ‘x86 tax’, sees no future for ARM or any ... by spiralpolitik on Thursday June 14, 2012 @12:37PM (#4112176)
Generally when a company dismisses a competitor in this way it usually finds itself on the wrong end of a disruptive collapse in 5 or so years. See Nokia, RIM, Palm.

While its difficult to bet against Intel, it will be interesting to see how quickly they can ramp up sales of their mobile processors as sales of their desktop processors decline. That will be the key to Intel's survival.

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Re:Intel dismisses ‘x86 tax’, sees no future for ARM or any ... by adrianmsmith on Thursday June 14, 2012 @01:35PM (#4112513)
"as sales of their desktop processors decline"

Why will their sales of desktop processors decline?

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Re:Intel dismisses ‘x86 tax’, sees no future for ARM or any ... by spiralpolitik on Thursday June 14, 2012 @02:45PM (#4112866)
People switching from buying x86 laptops or desktops switching to buying tablets instead.

If the iPad/Android/Windows 8 tablet doesn't have an Intel processor in it then that's money lost for Intel.

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