Intel should sooner or later contribute its expertise to producing multi-core ARMed chips, but they probably can't economically do that until Wintel is almost dead, something that will take a few years yet," Pogson added.
Intel was "sucked into the black hole of monopoly riding on the coattails of M$, chasing easy money and making it easy to stifle its competitors," he said. "That has all ended with GNU/Linux and ARM getting together to restore competition to IT supply-chains. So, let the whole team come to the game.
"Intel's move is not a game-winner," Pogson concluded. "It's just one more play."
Intel has "often tried to stick a foot into any market for chips where there is money to be made," Slashdot blogger hairyfeet pointed out. "Remember the Celeron? That was their way of getting into the low-end market Cyrix and WinChip had started, and of course netbooks where they came up with the Atom to counter the low-end ARM netbooks running Linux that had popped up.