It's a nitpick, but surely you don't mean this literally? What if Intel's offerings beat ARM chips on, say, efficiency and price, or efficiency and performance... would you still believe ARM to be in a superior position?
AMD has been competing with Intel on price for the past two decades.
I know which of these two stocks I'd have rather owned over the past ten years:
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The data from this article is the first I've seen that indicates Intel could dominate the high-end mobile chip market in the near future.
Not with mobile trends and ARM uptake trends persisting. ARM speeds are getting more and more competitive. (I would argue, please forgive me, that signs are pointing towards Linux uptake. Intel's high-margins are on consumer processors as well, surely a large percentage of it. It will hurt as mobile continues to displace desktop and as desktop increasingly targets ARM.
Very unlikely. First, because ARM already has chips that are much more efficient, like Cortex A7. Intel can't bring Atom to that level right now. It would take a few years, just like it took for Atom to get from 10W to 2W. By that time A7's successor would probably again be more powerful.
I also doubt it will be cheaper. So far no indication that Intel has managed that compared to ARM - ever.
>or efficiency and performance
That may already exist, in the form of their high-end chips, and in terms of performance/Watt. But their prices are 10x bigger. So pretty irrelevant when it competes to competing with ARM in the same markets.