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how long will Intel lasts? (II)
jim mullen11/10/2011 12:29 AM EST
The trend is fairly clear.
R Noyce is the bill gates of Intel who foresight the 40 years of prosperity of intel.
His little bro A Grove isn't bad but lacks the vision and courage to pull in more talents.
And now, A. Grove's assistant and sales man S. Maloney has made into the chairman position. Another salesman Otellini is the CEO.
Do these salesman really understand tech? such as if intel should stick with x86 structure or come up with a new one?
Intel 's failure in past several years to deliver a real mobile solution maybe is just a good reflection of this situation.
It must be hard for a MBA salesman to decide how to lower the power consumption of a CPU.
How long intel can last with such kind of failures? uh.. maybe depend on how fast the market ll shift. when ARM windows getting more mature it won't take 2 long, check Kodak or Xerox as example.
Another thing is the board of Intel is filled up with some jokes , maybe same as HP.
Headed by a female pham veteran and group of everything but scientist. How can they pull intel into the right track in such a complicate and fast changing world?
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EREBUS
11/13/2011 7:28 PM EST
I would not write the Intel obituary just yet. To parrot Mark Twain, "The death of the PC is highly exagerated." I know Apple would love to see the tablet dominate the world, but I have yet to see any applications that can replace either my desktop or my labtop for doing real work.
I have seen Intel jump back in the lead many times over the last forty years. I have yet to see anyone else come close to their level of quality and production.
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ibm221
11/17/2011 3:32 AM EST
this is a truly in depth analysis.
brand is worthless in the hands of some idiots,
such as Nokia, RIM, TSMC also will disappear without M. Chang as already proved.
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resistion
11/17/2011 8:33 AM EST
He (MC) said he might leave at 14 nm node, which is about three years...
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KB3001
11/17/2011 8:52 AM EST
They will last for as long as emerging markets continue to buy their stuff as they continue to catch up with mature economies. Sooner or later this will come to an end too.
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ibm221
11/17/2011 7:27 PM EST
In a fast changing bussiness top notch leadership (including board) is crucial.
ie. Microsoft (gates), TSMC (MC), Apple (Jobs), Qualcomm ...
it has been proven again and again they can't survive without their genius at helm.
a second tier option can lead it to survive sometime with it's momentum but when wind changes...
sure, intel get quite some momentum, but it's missing it's agility already. It simply don't understand how to catch up in the mobile world.
when ARM camp come up will a killer chip (in next couple of years) you will see another mediatek story and the falling of intel.
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ibm221
11/17/2011 7:35 PM EST
Yeah right, if Intel is ... coca-cola, ie it won't need to change it's recipe for next 100 years, it's all cool, they need a MBA ceo to sell them only.
but if your recipe changes... every month, quarter, you'd better get someone who understand the tricks on the top.
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snowboard9
11/18/2011 9:44 AM EST
LOL at the 30 somethings in here predicting the demise of Intel.
There is a LONG trail of dead bodies over the last 30 years each claiming to have something that defeats the x86, the PC, the transistor, Moore's Law, Intel, ....
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ibm221
11/20/2011 7:32 PM EST
as always, you will not be defeated by your enemy but by yourself.
As to Intel, it has lost it's sense and ambition.
EET will follow a trend, a good analyst will predict the trend and benefit from it.
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Sheetal.Pandey
11/21/2011 5:55 AM EST
If the company's CEO is a sales guy, its for sure the company will never close..it will go on...
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resistion
11/21/2011 8:14 AM EST
A CEO should have a sense in all the aspects, tech, sales, marketing, operations, human resources, etc. Otherwise would be deficient somewhere. More alarming, a "bean counter" as chairman. That can't be good.
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