According to The Oregonian, an area newspaper from (you guessed it) Oregon the place Intel has a powerful department presence, Intel held an all-hands assembly of its Oregon workforce, attended by future Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who’s quoted as having remarked that “We [Intel] have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino makes. We have to be that good, in the future.” Considering how Apple’s M1 has raised the world’s consideration to the ARM structure as a competitor with sturdy sufficient arguments to face the x86 ecosystem (as if ARM powering the world’s present quickest supercomputer wasn’t a powerful sufficient argument), that looks like a powerful but satisfactory assertion. We’ll see how Intel fares with its Alder lake CPUs, which basically carry ARM’s design philosophy of an heterogeneous CPU with each high-performance and high-efficiency cores to the x86 desk.