Excellent point, ssp. Intel is in high-margin business, and it will be hard to reinvent itself when it means slimming the margins. And I didn't know about Atom

Excellent point, ssp. Intel is in high-margin business, and it will be hard to reinvent itself when it means slimming the margins. And I didn't know about Atom/TSMC deal, so thanks for pointing that out: http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/03/atom-cant-feed-rd-monster-intel-outsources-chips-to-tsmc.ars http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/03/atom-cant-feed-...