IT: Intel and ARM showdown: Battle of the chip Who will be the winner?

We are excited for the new high-tech products, when we are holding a smart phone or tablet computer, when our lives more and more inseparable from the Internet, the technology to what material is most people will touch vain mind. Chip, processor, server, cloud computing, these terms are very few people realize what it meant, but they are indeed the buzzword of the field of science and technology. March 27, The Motley Fool website blog writers Carlos Roa Bowen, to our interpretation of the popular chip industry FY dispute Abstract. This article, the point of view from the original author, and do not represent the views of the World Wide Web.

Two empires

The chip industry's two giants Intel and ARM.

Intel dominates the PC market, almost all the PC chip products, products related to PC, Apple Mac computers and servers. Intel has been working to reduce the chip power consumption.

The ARM products covering mobile devices - smart phones, tablet computers, and so on. With Intel, ARM does not produce their own chips, but the production work delegated to Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm and NVIDIA These companies.


So the chip industry is divided into two platforms for PC and mobile devices, Intel and ARM, respectively, led a field. The two companies really done fast also in their own fields, to maintain profits and profit growth.

However, the two companies also are coveted by other market - Intel want to develop chips for smartphones and tablet, ARM, want to expand into the PC field. An imminent war, and the final winner will earn pours.