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Re:Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-dr... by skdotdan on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:36AM (#13858111)
But they missed mobile, and PC sales will go down (at some point). Also, ARM on the server?
Re:Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-dr... by Symmetry on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:52PM (#13862238)
Based on Microsoft's recent decision and some other rumors ARM on server might reduce Intel to only 90+% over the next few years but that's nearly the same cashflow.
Re:Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-dr... by samfisher83 on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:20AM (#13858501)
They didn't miss mobile. Mobile makes poor margins at least for intel so they are not in it. PC sales are already down. Where they make a ton of their money is data centers.
Re:Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-dr... by skdotdan on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:28AM (#13858620)
They did. They invested a lot in R+D on mobile processors.
Re:Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-dr... by snovv_crash on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:20AM (#13858506)
Mobile chips is low margin, there is hardly any money in it anyway.
Re:Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-dr... by skdotdan on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:27AM (#13858600)
That's right, but then when did they spent so much on mobile R+D?
Re:Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-dr... by fangsout on Monday March 13, 2017 @03:11PM (#13861265)
Partially because they felt they could gain some advantage by owning the client side of what is powering a lot of their data center chips. Investing in modem tech and trying to get into mobile phones, they could have a completely integrated story from the phone, modem, cell tower (see Axxia acquisition), to the data center. I think they also were hoping the Intel Security story would be compelling from an end-2-end perspective.
Re:Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-dr... by akvadrako on Monday March 13, 2017 @03:09PM (#13861244)
Mobile really means lower power and more integrated functions. Those aspects are becoming more important for all applications.