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The headline may be misleading. It initially read to me as though Intel is forming a new division to work on this. Instead, these folks are going to a new sta
by a_e_k 2y ago
The headline may be misleading. It initially read to me as though Intel is forming a new division to work on this. Instead, these folks are going to a new startup outside of Intel.
- cedws 2y agoMoonshot teams incubated inside of a huge, slow bureaucracy rarely work. Spinning it off as a startup of its own gives it the best shot.
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- bee_rider 2y agoDid they change it later? Splinter does not seem likely to be interpreted as forming an internal group.
- bitcharmer 2y agoEnglish is my second language but I interpreted "splinter" as leaving the org entirely. Was the title changed some time ago or is my English that bad?
- Redoubts 2y agoSplinter definitely implies separating from the parent entirely. A “spinoff” would be a related corporate entity.