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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?
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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.
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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.
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