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Intel has some amazing research. I was at an internal fair back in 1999 when I was doing an internship there in the Product Dev group that did the Itanium chip
by tmaly 11y ago
Intel has some amazing research. I was at an internal fair back in 1999 when I was doing an internship there in the Product Dev group that did the Itanium chipset.
They has this handheld touch screen device that resembled a modern smart phone that was driven by voice recognition. This was 1999 way before the iphone came around.
In my opinion, it is the internal politics and the leadership that has caused them to lose out.
Chip design books in academia were already moving in the direction of low power designs during the late 90s. They just did not take any action.
- shas3 11y agoJust saying, working touch screens have been around on devices for 30 years or more. Most 'PDA's, including < $100 phonebooks had decent resistive touch screens as far back as the mid-90s. Also, as such, speech recognition too has been around for at least 25 years. What's new in today's smartphones is the cloud+deep learning driven high-accuracy. You could probably have easily found a handheld with touchscreen and speech recognition at Circuit City in 1999.
- slapresta 11y agoWorking touch screens are useless without usable touch UIs.
- pessimizer 11y agoThe iPhone didn't represent any sort of technical advance. The only thing truly innovative about it was the (almost) all-screen form factor.