I don’t know if anyone could have predicted that the ARM architecture would become so dominant, but it certainly seems like Intel missed the boat on that one.
ARM wasn’t a sudden shift. 15 years ago it was clearly not going to be going away, simply due to energy efficiency needs. Intel responded with the Atom line, which was widely panned. Once it failed, Intel seemingly decided to skip that entire market.
I don’t know if anyone could have predicted that the ARM architecture would become so dominant, but it certainly seems like Intel missed the boat on that one.
ARM wasn’t a sudden shift. 15 years ago it was clearly not going to be going away, simply due to energy efficiency needs. Intel responded with the Atom line, which was widely panned. Once it failed, Intel seemingly decided to skip that entire market.