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When Intel was on top of the world I was fortunate enough to work at one of the partner companies on a project that was a pet project of Andy Grove. I would nom

by Zigurd 3mo ago

When Intel was on top of the world I was fortunate enough to work at one of the partner companies on a project that was a pet project of Andy Grove. I would nominate him and his whole C suite as a beacon of ethics and fair dealing.

PunchyHamster 3mo ago
When Intel was on top of the world they tried every trick to destroy the competition so that definitely didn't stemmed from the top...
- LarsDu88 3mo ago
  Andry Grove was great, but Intel really was the epitome of "competition is for losers" In the early days all their products were explicitly designed to only work with each other to create a hardware walled garden.
  - narism 3mo ago
    Compared to Apple/DEC/Sun/SGI, the Intel ecosystem was remarkably open.
    - Danox 3mo ago
      Open to Microsoft…
      - narism 3mo ago
        That’s an argument against Microsoft, not Intel. Intel’s main anti-competitive sin was against rival CPU/chipset/graphics manufacturers.
        LarsDu88 3mo ago
        They commoditized their compliment, but made sure their chips only worked with their accessory products, particularly in the 70s
  - fvwqcecvq 3mo ago
    I think it's fair to say absorbing functions onto the CPU die, reducing the part count of motherboards, was a natural evolution of the PC and made sense. So I don't really fault Intel for that. But they definitely had other tricks up their sleeve... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v._Intel_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....