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		dom0 on April 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Many X86-64 Instructions Are There Anyway? So? Samsung also sells a lot more smartphones than Apple, yet Apple makes far more profit from them. You can't pay R&D with revenue. There are probably more PowerPC chips sold via laser printers and such than x86 chips. Conversely, 8051 derivates probably outnumber all of these. So what. Meaningless argument.

pcwalton on April 30, 2017 [–]

It's pretty hard to make an argument in 2017 that Intel is in a better economic position than its mobile competitors by focusing on the PC market.

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