World's Thickest Book

Intel should publish all of their documentation, including

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-manual-325462.html
and
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/64-ia-32-architectures-optimization-manual.html

in one book.

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Intel actually has an ARM license. They don't intend to use it.

That license is also old - they might have to shell out more money to get access to the newer stuff. Intel has plenty of money for that, of course, if they want it.

Medfield looks pretty good for a first try. Intel never cared much about low power, they were after performance first. But now that they're trying, it'll be interesting to see what happens. Having an entire PC-compatible smartphone would be awesome.

The Windows 8 boondoggle makes it pretty clear that the consumer mass market couldn't care less about Intel's cherished PC compatibility (and Medfield isn't PC compatible, anyway). The commercial embedded market, where such things have more weight, is already deeply distrustful of Intel and won't chase their offerings unless and until they demonstrate a clear price advantage. The continued investment in fab instead of buying their way back into the LTE market demonstrates to me that Intel would rather die than live on the ARM vendors' margins.