Intel Microprocessor Business ‘Doomed,’ Claims ARM Co-Founder

Mr. Heidarson did agree that Intel faces a serious threat to its position. That threat is not ARM per se, “but the threat comes from vertically integrated manufacturers like Apple — they do everything from product design right down to processor design.”

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“If you look at the history of computing there was mainframe, which was dominated by IBM, then came the mini computer dominated by DEC, then came the third wave with workstations dominated by Sun and Apollo, then the PC, and now it’s the mobile architecture that is going to be the main computing platform at least on the terminal side.

“There is no case in the history of computing where a company that has dominated one wave has dominated the next wave and there is no case where a new wave did not kill the previous wave — as in obliterate them…the people that dominate the PC market are Intel and Microsoft.”

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