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Re:Intel Raises $6 Billion in Bond Sale to Buy Back Stock by makomk on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @05:00AM (#4875633)
In practice Intel had to develop an ARM emulator for x86 to even stand a chance in the Android market, because so many apps use native ARM code and they have no reason to so much as recompile.
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Re:Intel Raises $6 Billion in Bond Sale to Buy Back Stock by simonh on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @06:35AM (#4875842)
I suppose thy could buy into an exclusive deal with a minority market share platform such as BB10 or WinMo8 instead, because then the installed base wouldn't matter. That would only work if they could: (a) offer a competitive advantage over ARM. (b) make it financially appealing to the platform vendor. (c) Pick a platform that has a hope in hell of getting market traction. Their best bet there would be MS/Nokia, but it would be a case of seeing if tying three sinking ships together works better than two.
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