Re:How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
by GeekyBear on Friday August 30, 2024 @05:39AM
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Intel was perfectly capable of fabbing the ARM chip Apple wanted.
They just screwed up the cost to manufacture estimate which led them to make a bad call.
That's straight out of their CEO's mouth in an interview, so there isn't anything to "debunk".
Later, they would attempt to correct the error by selling x86 chips way below cost in a failed effort to break into the mobile device market.
> In order to make these platforms viable for the low-end and mid-range of the tablet market, Intel provided system vendors with "contra-revenue" subsidies. These platforms simply required an expensive set of surrounding components to work, so Intel "made up the difference," so to speak, to customers who used its platforms with subsidies.
This program likely cost Intel, and its stockholders, in excess of a billion dollars.
They just screwed up the cost to manufacture estimate which led them to make a bad call.
That's straight out of their CEO's mouth in an interview, so there isn't anything to "debunk".
Later, they would attempt to correct the error by selling x86 chips way below cost in a failed effort to break into the mobile device market.
> In order to make these platforms viable for the low-end and mid-range of the tablet market, Intel provided system vendors with "contra-revenue" subsidies. These platforms simply required an expensive set of surrounding components to work, so Intel "made up the difference," so to speak, to customers who used its platforms with subsidies.
This program likely cost Intel, and its stockholders, in excess of a billion dollars.
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/21/intel-corp...