Re:Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines
by wslh on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:25PM
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The example of Kodak or any other, once upon a time, successful company can be applied to anyone: from Intel to Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. We can't predict the future but Intel has a competitive advantage in the technology and investment capabilities of more integrated chips while Kodak was completely disrupted by new innovations. Intel has a lot of room to experiment if they are really challenged. I am not bullish on Intel but they remain to have unique offerings.
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Re:Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines
by patrickg_zill on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @07:56PM
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Kodak KNEW the digital chips were coming. They even designed the first of them.
Same as Intel knows that low-power chips are eating up the bottom, that ARM is strong in this space, etc. But so far Intel hasn't had a good response (same as Kodak) to the new challenger.
Re:Intel discontinues Joule, Galileo, and Edison product lines
by andreiw on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:39PM
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Scaling down is hard. Look at OpenPower. They are feeling the heat from Xeons and know they need to scale and price down, and yet the scale-out Power9 SKU won't be out for what, another year? And how long until actual OCP gear ships, which probably will still cost like a decent Hyundai sedan?
Intel had nothing to offer to compete with ARM in mobile space. Largely ignored ARMv8 servers when they were mostly specialized or micro. Now E5-competitive chips are entering the market from multiple competitors, and even mobile SoCs have grown up into laptop chips...