just not on the server side. MIPS is extemely popular in embedded apps, especially for network processors. There are some pretty cool MIPS chips out there, with multiple processors on a die. PowerPC is probably the second most popular architecture for network processors, and Intel is trying to get into this with their XScale.

ARM also outsells Intel by a wide margin -- they're extremely dominant in cell phones (e.g. Nokia cell phones use TI chips with an ARM core + a TI DSP core) and becoming so in PDAs.

And, yes, on the conspiracy theory, well, the Inquirer has also raised similar issues. I think the Itanic and its successors will be dogs, so what may happen instead is that Intel/HP/Compaq lose market share to IBM/Sun (high end) and white box servers (P IV Xeon, AMD Hammer) on the low end.


Tony
Who is more interested in the lastest DSP's (TI's 320C2810/12) than Intel's lastest CPU