Re:Intel's Humbling
by _the_inflator on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @12:52AM
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Yes, I agree. However, I don’t necessarily see this book title as an imperative to innovate. Patent trolling can also be a way to deal with competitors.
After all, Apple and ARM came from the idea to have better end user products around softer factors than shear CPU power. Since Intel‘s products aren’t highly integrated Phones nor assembled computer, Intel had no stake directly.
It is complex.
Apple came from recreational “there is now a 10 times cheaper CPU than anything else and I can afford to build my video terminal into real computer in my bedroom” and “maybe we can actually sell it?”. [1]
ARM literally came from “we need a much better and faster processor” and “how hard can this be?” [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#1971%E2%...
Their third employee that later went on to become their third CEO and guide Intel from the memory to processor transition literally coined the term and wrote a book called "Only the Paranoid Survive" [1]. It's inexcusable that management degraded that much.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove#Only_the_Paranoid...