Intel Corp (INTC)

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they need the high performance chips like Core to continue

I agree.

Computer engineers looks at this chart and worry about it.
http://www.gotw.ca/images/CPU.png

Performance has flattened out due to power limits. Even in a hypothetical world where smartphones and tablets did not exist, Intel would still be facing a problem competing with itself if the next generation of chips offers little performance over the previous generation.

Even multicore scaling will run out of gas. This paper was written with input from Shekhar Borkar (Intel Fellow) who provided input on transistor scaling trends for the sub-22nm era.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hadi/doc/paper/2011-isca-dark_silicon.pdf