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Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May

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Re: Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May

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Post by mtgx »

A good time for him to leave before the downwards trend of Intel becomes more obvious, and people start blaming it on him. I hope he leaves the board of Google, too, because I don't like how he has influenced some of Google's decisions in the past few years, to use Intel chips instead of ARM in their new devices, and every single one of them turned out to be the wrong decision.

Re: Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

mtgx wrote: post #3

A good time for him to leave before the downwards trend of Intel becomes more obvious, and people start blaming it on him. I hope he leaves the board of Google, too, because I don't like how he has influenced some of Google's decisions in the past few years, to use Intel chips instead of ARM in their new devices, and every single one of them turned out to be the wrong decision.

Which "new devices" are you referring to? As far as I know the Nexus One and Nexus 4 use Qualcomm CPUs, and the Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, and Nexus 10 all use ARM CPUs.

Edit: Thanks to those who pointed out that I'd forgotten the Chromebooks and Google TV. Given the limited extent to which Google have marketed these devices, I'm not sure whether they can be said to have failed yet. And even if they have failed, it is not clear that this was due to using Intel components.

Re: Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May

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Post by bryanlarsen »

What a legacy -- he retires the same day that Intel wins. AMD just ceded the high margin CPU business to concentrate on the volume CPU business. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804602

Otellini's successor will be playing a different game, fighting ARM rather than AMD.

Re: Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May

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Post by bryanlarsen »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #5
mtgx wrote: post #3

A good time for him to leave before the downwards trend of Intel becomes more obvious, and people start blaming it on him. I hope he leaves the board of Google, too, because I don't like how he has influenced some of Google's decisions in the past few years, to use Intel chips instead of ARM in their new devices, and every single one of them turned out to be the wrong decision.

Which "new devices" are you referring to? As far as I know the Nexus One and Nexus 4 use Qualcomm CPUs, and the Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, and Nexus 10 all use ARM CPUs. Edit: Thanks to those who pointed out that I'd forgotten the Chromebooks and Google TV. Given the limited extent to which Google have marketed these devices, I'm not sure whether they can be said to have failed yet. And even if they have failed,…

But those were successful devices. He's talking about Google devices that failed, in part because they used Intel CPU's. Devices like the original Google TV.
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