How could they crush arm when arm would not be infringing intels manufacturing patents. Why do you think intel was unable to make dents into the gpu space? Why did they fail at the soc business ? Why are they having a hard time in the modem business? Why did they have to acquire altera to get in the fpga business? Most hardware companies operate as oligopolies in their fields where the players have a mexican standoff going on with patents. The threat of mutually assured destruction keeps the balance going. Any new entrant faces huge challenges since they dont have the patents to hold others to ransom.
"Intel unable to make dents in the GPU business" must come from a parallel universe. Meanwhile in ours Intel has gobbled up virtually the entire low end GPU market, and is proceeding to take over the middle ground. It's the No 1 or No 2 supplier of GPUs for PCs, depending on who you ask. It's virtually impossible to buy a laptop without an Intel GPU in it. It is widely suspected in my circle (game development) that the only thing stopping Intel from shipping a competitive discrete GPU based on their Gen design (the one that goes into CPUs) is that they get much better margins selling that production capacity as CPUs. Intel sucking out the air of the GPU market is a large part of what's driving NVIDIA into "AI" and "machine learning", and AMD into custom designs (consoles).
