Mark the date, everyone. August 16, 2016 is when Intel finally admitted it had lost the race in the mobile chipset market and announced a deal which would allow the company to build ARM-based chipsets for mobile and Internet of Things devices. Intel was and still is the main force in the desktop market (the laptop market is slipping as Chromebooks rise), but Intel never had a chance in mobile.
Intel tried to get its x86 chipsets into mobile devices, and although the processors worked well in devices like the Nexus 9, ARM-based chips from the likes of Qualcomm, Samsung, and MediaTek have dominated the space.
