Intel's best chance of success...
Intel's best chance of success would be combining an ARM processor and an Intel Processor in one little-big hard wired form factor.
Intel are never going to beat ARM at a particular fabrication die size for speed, ARM will always win out, but by recognising and routing ARM instructions and Intel instructions to dedicated chips on a single SoC die, it could combine the best of both worlds and win against the likes of Apple's M1 ARM chips through better backwards cross compatibility.
Rosetta 2 is good, but it's still not as good as a dedicated Intel chip for running X86 code. But then again, maybe the future is the likes of a virtualised software stack for X86 code on an M1 or equivalent, and Intel's X86 days are already numbered against ARM.
It's certainly not going to be easy for Intel to crunch those Apple M2, M3 benchmarks at 3nm die size heading towards 1nm die, going forward. Apple are showing their metal on the hardware chip design front, has to be said, but they are heavily reliant on TMSC for all of this, and preventing their best from jumping ship.
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