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I remember Paul said his biggest regret was not working with Apple on the iPhone. I wonder how different Intel would be today if that occurred.
by heyheyhey 9y ago
I remember Paul said his biggest regret was not working with Apple on the iPhone.
I wonder how different Intel would be today if that occurred.
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoProbably not much different, since Intel's baseband is on many versions of the iPhone.
- raverbashing 9y agoWell, they didn't have a competing product at the time. Atom on phones is kinda new, and I'm not sure it would fit Apple's requirements of battery life, etc
- thecompilr 9y agoWell, probably we would still see Apple develop their own CPUs. Intel just couldn't deliver on the low power promise.
- GeekyBear 9y agoIntel sure left a whole lot of money on the table for the TSMC's of the world to use for R&D and for capital expenditures like building more Fabs.
- RachelF 9y agoIntel had an ARM chip division for Phone CPUs called XScale from 2002 to 2006 when they sold it to Marvell to focus on the more profitable x86 series.[1] He may have believed the x86 Atom chips could replace the XScale. Xscale was widely used in Palm Treo's, Sony Clie's most Compaq Poquet PC's and the original Amazon Kindle. His "biggest regret" comment is pure rewriting of history. He made the wrong decision to get out of phone CPUs. This is probably one of the biggest blunders in Intel's history. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale
- selectodude 9y agoWhat's odd is they still have an ARM Architectural license. They could jump into the fray if they really wanted to. Probably would be pretty hard to justify, though.
- mixmastamyk 9y agoRead a few comments below lamenting about lost profits. Odd, because I’m thanking the lucky stars we don’t have more consolidation in the industry.