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there's not really a war at all, is there?

ARM are completely dominant in this market.



ARM are completely dominant .. currently. If Intel does manage to execute on their roadmap, then I wouldn't be so sure.


Intel is getting pretty close. in a benchmark of a medfield phone, battery capacity for web browsing was just 20% lower than the best android phone benchmarked[1].

And medfield still uses 32nm process,not the latest finfet 22nm process intel is so proud of.

And the orange san-diego is also priced reasonably at $300.

So this looks like a fair fight.

[1]http://hexus.net/mobile/news/android/38501-intel-based-smart...


The real question is "How little are Intel willing to sell the CPU in this phone for?".

A fairly up to date Cortex-A8 ARM CPU can be had for under $5 [1] and as impressive as Intel's manufacturing base is, their profits are based on selling CPUs at 50-100x higher prices than this.

Whatever happens, I think the coming battle between generic ARM chips and x86 is going to slash Intel's profitability.

[1] - http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/dsp/arm.page?DCMP=TIHeaderTracking...


Don't underestimate the value of Intel's manufacturing dominance.




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