Reports Of Intel’s Death Are Wildly Exaggerated

The ARM/Apple tsunami is gaining strength, but anyone who thinks it will swamp Wintel anytime soon is badly mistaken. ‘If you’ve ever struggled through a skiing lesson, you know exactly what the expression “too far over your skis” means: You’re headed in the right direction, but you’re leaning so far forward you’re going to take a tumble. And that’s what’s going to happen to my colleague Galen Gruman, who along with other pundits is falling all over himself to bury Intel under the oncoming ARM tsunami. Yes, as many of us have written, the old PC-centric computing model is running out of gas as tablets and smartphone become more powerful and more central to how we live, work, and play. That’s the right direction. But timing is everything — there’s lots of evidence that Wintel still has many years left in it — which is why Gruman and others are seriously ahead of themselves.’