Eaten by what exactly, 32-bit ARM chips that lose all semblance of power efficiency as frequencies go up and need for calculating something more complex than angry fucking birds arises?
As long as servers have to shoulder real work, Intel will dominate there.
Same story in consumer market. Your typical sheeple may be fine with content consumption device running on glorified phone chip, but when there is need to do even just a little bit more, there is no way but x86, and guess who`s boss there.
“Wheeler — should the Senate confirm his nomination — instantly becomes one of the most powerful men in the world, wielding control over the signals that power every smartphone, internet connection, and television in the biggest economy on the planet.”
So the ability to screw feckless american customer for corporate lobby money somehow translates into THEGREATPOWEROVERTHEWORLD. I guess that guy can wage wars now, pressure states politically, sign international treaties, veto in UN…
