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Otellini’s Striking Confession

May 19, 2013 – 10:37 pm

Tweet  We know Intel shunned ARM processors and played virtually no role in the smartphone revolution. But we now learn Steve Jobs asked Intel to build the iPhone microprocessor. Paul Otellini, Intel’s departing CEO, admits he should have followed his gut – and made the smartphone world a very different place. CEO valedictions follow a [...]

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Apple Buys Intel

April 29, 2013 – 3:50 am

Tweet  Getting rid of Samsung as a processor supplier and, at the same time, capturing the crown jewel of the American semiconductor industry. How could Apple resist the temptation to solve its cash problem and make history again? Halfway through the second quarter of the 2013 fiscal year, most of Apple’s top execs meet at [...]

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Wintel: Le Divorce Part II

December 2, 2012 – 8:16 pm

Tweet  At CES 2011, Ballmer told the world Windows would “fork”, that it would also run on lower power ARM chips for mobile devices. This was seen as a momentous breach in the long-standing Wintel duopoly. Two years later, the ARM tooth of the fork looks short and dull. This is what I wrote almost [...]

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Apple, ARM, and Intel

October 21, 2012 – 7:54 pm

Tweet  Apple and Samsung are engaged in a knives-out smartphone war, most infamously in the courts but, more importantly, in the marketplace. In its latest ad campaign, Samsung has cleverly “borrowed” a page from Apple’s own marketing playbook, posturing the iPhone as the choice of autumn-aged parents and brainwashed queue sheep. But when it comes [...]

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The Apple-Intel-Samsung Ménage à Trois

May 13, 2012 – 10:29 pm

TweetFascinating doesn’t do justice to the spectacle, nor to the stakes. Taken in pairs, these giants exchange fluids – products and billion$ – while fiercely fighting with their other half. Each company is the World’s Number One in their domain: Intel in microprocessors, Samsung in electronics, Apple in failure to fail as ordained by the [...]

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2011: Shift Happens

December 18, 2011 – 10:59 pm

TweetWhatever 2011 was, it wasn’t The Year Of The Incumbent. The high-tech world has never seen the ground shift under so many established companies. This causes afflicted CEOs to exhibit the usual symptoms of disorientation: reorg spams, mindless muttering of old mantras and, in more severe cases, speaking in tongues, using secret language known only [...]

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Intel 3-D Transistors: Why and When?

May 8, 2011 – 6:53 pm

TweetA few days ago, Intel teased: On May 4th, the company would make “its most significant technology announcement of the year.” Tongues wagged. Will Intel make ARM chips for Apple? The speculation has roots in reality. We’ll start with the public breakup of the Wintel marriage. At this year’s CES in January, Steve Ballmer made [...]

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Wintel: Le Divorce

January 16, 2011 – 9:02 pm

Tweet The eponymous flick is mildly interesting, but we’re gathered here today to examine the Wintel breakup. After years of monogamy with the x86 architecture, Windows will soon run on ARM processors. As in any divorce, Microsoft and Intel point fingers at one another. Intel complains about Microsoft’s failure to make a real tablet OS. [...]

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Curious Summer

August 29, 2010 – 4:14 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Nothing much happens in August, we thought. Wrong. Our three-week break has been filled with a number of “interesting” events. Curious Yellow Let’s start with Mark Hurd’s exit from HP after five years of great financial performance as CEO. If you missed the fireworks, you can get a refresher in this Business [...]

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