Replies to post #124209 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[techno_bull]

Every time I call my electrician to come by and give me a price on a new project at my house, we always discuss an appointment time that won't conflict with the other electricians that are bidding. I only know one electrician and wouldn't think of using anyone else.

[Tenchu]

BOJAL,

How can Intel fend this off when companies like Dell and HP are actively looking to go to ARMH?

Same way they fended off AMD when Dell and HP went with them for some of their product lines. Build better products.

By the way, is this the article you're referring to?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dell-hp-race-kill-intel-215143159.html

If so, the article is an example of shoddy journalism, because it makes the false assumption that ARM's power advantage translates well to servers.

Tenchu

[mmoy]

There is, of course, the aspect of software. The article states that some software vendors, notably Red Hat, is doing a port for ARM. But which ARM? The aspect that ARM is licensed to device and semiconductor companies means that there are a bunch of different instruction sets out there so that something that you use on one ARM architecture implementation might not run on another.

OTOH, with x86, you just have to deal with Intel and AMD and they generally work together at some level to try to maintain compatibility.