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Can someone explain to me Intel's continued fascination with being a consumer company? I suspect that Intel is buying companies and products like this for the
by corresation 13y ago
Can someone explain to me Intel's continued fascination with being a consumer company?
I suspect that Intel is buying companies and products like this for the same reason that Microsoft bought Nokia -- they see some markets moving away from them, and rather than convincing other manufacturers and fighting competing inertia, they're going to try to make the market themselves.
That isn't to be dismissive of Intel at all -- they are a tremendous company, and their products are virtually always class leading (in capability and quality). But they were making so much money on the fat processor market they got lured into the classic fallacy of thinking that they were their own biggest competitor, and now the whole ARM ecosystem has turned into a remarkably capable foe.