One thing that goes in Intel's favor is certainly Moore's law. Intel manages to shrink transistors and that way put them more on the same chip than all the other manufacturers. This is the ARM's Achilles heal, because they are strongly dependent on third party developers who need to shrink those transistors for them.

Intel currently produces their SoC's in the form of the Atom Z2460 and Z2760 based platforms Medfield and Clover Trail using 32-nanometer technology, but competitors such as Qualcomm already have chips manufactured using 28-nanometer technology. Currently Intel already makes processors for personal computers in the classic 22-nanometer technology, but considering SoC's contain multiple functions it makes them a bit harder to shrink the process. In most cases the GPU is the part that has the hardest time being shrunk, but as with everything there is always a solution and Intel has been leading the pack in process technology for a very long time.

Tell us your thoughts on Intel competing in the mobile market with ARM in our Forum