Intel Seems Vulnerable to Low-Cost Chips nytimes.com
Old news, of course. If anyone believes Reggie, Intel will rule cheap PC's in the end. People will buy the Celeron because it's Intel. Haha. Jeez, they didn't even want to pollute the Pentium name.
I don't particularly follow the Intel antitrust news; to repeat without the usual elaboration, I don't put Intel in the same class as Microsoft. I haven't even noted Mysterious Merced slipping yet again, putting NT2K back into the race and crashing the techs. Sheesh, worse than Janet Reno. But, since another sometimes favorite theme of mine, Microsoft vs. Intel on antitrust, is up for discussion, I had to post this one just for the conclusion.
Because the business practices that the trade commission's suit seeks to curtail have little impact on the company's ability to compete, analysts do not expect Intel to fight this suit with the same no-compromise approach that Microsoft has taken with the Justice Department. As one Intel executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, put it: "This isn't a fight; it's a process. The F.T.C. is just doing its job."
No! No! Intel must be free to imitate, er, integrate, I mean, innovate! Who is John Galt, anyway?
Cheers, Dan. |
