Intel Corp (INTC)

[fastpathguru]

Are you telling me that when I browse the web,

Yes. WTF do you think web sites are hosted on?

play a game,

Stand-alone game, no. Multiplayer, almost certainly yes.

or run some other app on my phone/tablet

Depends on the app. If it is entirely self-contained - both on
the compute side and on the database/internet access no,
otherwise yes. E.g. fart app or jiggle boobs, ARM can handle
that no problem. Google maps, finding closest restaurant, or
updating facebook status etc certainly yes.

that it's running on an X86 server somewhere?

Don't get me wrong, the application processor is always
refreshing your pixels and looking for finger contact but
the useful stuff is almost always done at least in part if
not majority on a server somewhere. Without connectivity
to the cloud a smart phone is basically a Nintendo DS. big smile

A) This is no different for PC's surfing the web...
B) Surfing the web is 90% of what consumers do with computers.

I.e. Most people can get along just fine with what you call a "Nintendo DS."

And now the mobile platforms are running on PC-level hardware too, opening the door to non-Intel neo-PC's.

Excluding AMD, Intel used to have this market ~100% to itself, steadily funding all their higher ambitions. Now it doesn't.

fpg

PS: Nintendo DS? If that's your view you're seriously out of touch. You could at the very least reference Nvidia Shield...