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Intel is silicon company. They are myopically focused on this, and this alone. They feed the OEMs and for the most part, try not to step on their toes. Intel wi
by benjamincburns 13y ago
Intel is silicon company. They are myopically focused on this, and this alone. They feed the OEMs and for the most part, try not to step on their toes. Intel will never, ever build something to compete with RPi because that's not where Intel plays. Intel might build something to compete with the Broadcom chips which power the RPi, but honestly I think the revenue stream of the entire hobbyist/educational market combined is just barely a blip on Intel's radar. They like the margins, but the volume just isn't there.
All that said, that doesn't mean that Intel's technical marketing departments aren't taking risks in areas such as the hobbyist market. Companies as large as Intel are often quite good at this. However, I wouldn't trust the longevity (and therefore future) of anything out of Intel that isn't a high volume silicon product line.
- nl 13y agoIntel is silicon company. They are myopically focused on this, and this alone. They feed the OEMs and for the most part, try not to step on their toes. Intel will never, ever build something to compete with RPi because that's not where Intel plays. Counterexample: Intel NUC[1]. It's targeted at consumers, and you can actually buy it. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing
- benjamincburns 13y agoSure, there are plenty of such counter examples, but I'd bet my left shoe that each of them draws from some marketing budget or equivalent. Think of those as start-ups within the larger organization: they're risky, transient, and haven't gained acceptance to be a complete part of the whole yet.