“when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer”
The website http://extremetech.com has a great graph showing how commodity Intel x86 processors have overtaken the world, first desktops in the 1980s, then the data center in the 1990s, then supercomputers in the 2000s. So what’s next for Intel to conquer?
There are two answers: mobile (phones, pads) and network appliances. You are probably aware of the first, with the battle raging with Windows8/Android on Intel “Atom” processors competing against ARM processors, but you might not have heard of the second fight.
