Intel needs to focus on WP to strengthen cooperation with Microsoft

"Sadie Network News" October 11, the United States well-known financial website The Motley fool published in the "Intel needs to focus on Windows Phone, to strengthen cooperation with Microsoft," the review article, The full text is summarized as follows: Intel and Microsoft, which used to dominate the PC industry, are under great pressure. Intel is aggressively moving into Android smartphones and tablets, and Microsoft is pushing its arm-architecture-based Windows RT flat platform, and the WinTel monopoly is slowly and decisively disintegrating. However, Intel has ignored Microsoft's Windows Phone completely enough. Of course, the future of Windows Phone has yet to be tested, but Intel's neglect seems somewhat inappropriate. A Microsoft-Nokia deal could create a company like Apple. Many Intel bears rightly point out that Apple's iOS ecosystem relies on running instruction set architecture code, which makes it difficult to switch to the processor even though the former processor is designed to generate performance/power gains. Meanwhile。 Apple's processor design team is now highly skilled, further reducing Intel's hopes of responding to Apple's orders. Every Windows Phone now runs, especially the ARM processor produced by Qualcomm. Although Windows Phone uses an ecosystem instruction set to be independent, it appears to be detrimental to Microsoft partners to create a huge application library running the arm instruction set. But if the ecosystem can grow significantly, as Intel enters the Android world, it will be an arduous and costly effort by Intel to enter the Windows Phone Arena. So the real question is why is Intel's upcoming Merrifield system chip targeting just Google's Android platform? It is reported that the Merrifield chip uses Intel's newest Silvermont processor core. It's clear that Android has captured most of the smartphone market today, but it's not good news for Intel to have any market expansion with only the ARM processor's Windows Phone platform. So what should intel do about it? This is really a tricky question. On the one hand, Microsoft, as Intel's partner, does not look very closely related. On the other hand, Qualcomm or Nvidia may be better at the Android mobile that they are born with. In fact, the vast majority of Microsoft PC and server-side software and Intel chips will still have a good synergy. Perhaps Intel-Microsoft's partnership in smartphones will not only strengthen Microsoft's brand but also ensure that Intel does not drift away from other ecosystems. In view of this, the real question is whether Intel can provide the appropriate chips and the necessary software stacks in time. In fact, for IntelThere is no technical barrier, the difficulty is Microsoft and Intel, two companies, the strategic concept of contention. It seems likely that Microsoft's Windows Phone will achieve some degree of success. So, Intel really needs to focus on Windows Phone and develop chips for it to strengthen its collaboration with the former. The writer Ashraf-Isa (Ashraf Eassa) is the Motley fool columnist for the famous financial website of the United States.