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> For most of it's existence, if Intel had missed a manufacturing node in Moore's Law, it would have been rightly recognized as an existential threat, and it wo
by lr1970 4y ago
> For most of it's existence, if Intel had missed a manufacturing node in Moore's Law, it would have been rightly recognized as an existential threat, and it would have become the #1 focus of the CEO and the rest of the company.
Former Intel-er here. You hit it on the nail. Andy Grove used to say "Only paranoid survive" and acted accordingly. But when Paul Otellini became the CEO it was downhill ever since.
- midoridensha 4y agoNo, it was going downhill when Craig Barrett was CEO. He made lots of stupid mistakes, getting involved in too many risky and unnecessary ventures (like consumer products: remember the Intel keyboard and mouse? Or music player? Or worse, microscope?). The big one was tying the P4 processor to RAMBUS memory.
- lr1970 4y agoYes, it started with Barrett but became painfully obvious under Otellini. When Steve Jobs asked Intel to build a chip for future iPhone Otellini said no -- one of the biggest strategic blunders. Also in 2005 Intel paid Dell not to use superior AMD offering instead of putting all hands on deck fixing their own (they did achieve parity eventually).