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I've typed this before but I'll type it again here. About 10 years ago I ran the local Python Meetup group here in Phoenix. Intel had/has a big presence here an

by cowmix 4y ago

I've typed this before but I'll type it again here. About 10 years ago I ran the local Python Meetup group here in Phoenix. Intel had/has a big presence here and one of they guys who worked on the Atom team (doing compiler optimizations for that chip family) told us (at one of the Meetups)Intel corporate didn't like how good a processor Atom was shaping up to be. They were worried it would start to cannibalize their desktop and server processor lines -- so they did everything possible to cripple its development. He and his whole team were furious.

xwolfi 4y ago
All that to end up with giant cloud providers selling arm servers...
spfzero 4y ago
If someone is going to eat your current business, it's better if it is you. Fear of cannibalization is basically, "our customers will find out we have an even better product for them than the one they are currently buying from us." It's a good thing for your customers, and it's good for the long-term competitiveness of your company.
- Sylamore 4y ago
  I've always told my business partners when discussing future products that if you aren't afraid to cannibalize your own revenue streams, your competitor (or another internal team) will.
- deleted 4y ago
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tuatoru 4y ago
SOP. IBM crippled the AS/400 when it looked like it could eat into their mainframe business, for example. It's the innovator's dilemma. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma
nprateem 4y ago
This is called the innovators dilemma
Aromasin 4y ago
The Atom core is starting to find it's place now though, albeit years later. New Hybrid architecture in the core platforms, in the guise of the efficiency core, and for IoT/MilTech platforms there's a massive growing market with their Elkhart/Tiger Lake processor taking a large share of it.

by cowmix 4y ago

xwolfi 4y ago

All that to end up with giant cloud providers selling arm servers...

spfzero 4y ago

If someone is going to eat your current business, it's better if it is you. Fear of cannibalization is basically, "our customers will find out we have an even better product for them than the one they are currently buying from us." It's a good thing for your customers, and it's good for the long-term competitiveness of your company.

Sylamore 4y ago
I've always told my business partners when discussing future products that if you aren't afraid to cannibalize your own revenue streams, your competitor (or another internal team) will.
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tuatoru 4y ago

SOP. IBM crippled the AS/400 when it looked like it could eat into their mainframe business, for example. It's the innovator's dilemma. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma

nprateem 4y ago

This is called the innovators dilemma

Aromasin 4y ago

The Atom core is starting to find it's place now though, albeit years later. New Hybrid architecture in the core platforms, in the guise of the efficiency core, and for IoT/MilTech platforms there's a massive growing market with their Elkhart/Tiger Lake processor taking a large share of it.