Intel is Toast

Okay this is just some of my subjective musing on the future of Intel, AMD and ARM right before Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2020. I made the prediction back in 2016 that Apple would switch from intel to ARM in 2019.

Back then I don’t think that was obvious to people, but because I had made several other predictions in the past where I got pretty close such as predicting something like the Swift programming language I thought the prediction game was kind of fun to play. I wanted to see what I could get right if I tried to analyze the situation.

Watching the enormous success of the iOS platform and the tremendous performance increases of ARM as well as where computing was going in general it seemed obvious to me that this would happen even if no industry pundit had said so.

Anyway watching how computing has developed over the years it is clear that multicore is where it is at. So much software and games now are all built around using multiple cores. If you software runs on 8 cores then there isn’t anything fundamental that has to change for it to run on 16 cores. Hence from now on anyone who is good at adding cores will win.

We see how AMD is currently eating intel’s lunch because it came up with a smarter strategy for how to add multiple cores cheaply to its processors.

Intel is now under siege from two sides. Higher performance computing is facing tremendous challenge from AMD. Meanwhile ARM is trashing intel on mobile computing.