"Communications" is just a catch-all term
Pardon me for being blunt, John, but your point is off-base:
"Message #136315 from John Fowler at May 29, 2001 9:46 PM
Saturn,
re: Itanium - "This is the biggest gamble made by Intel."
No, communications."
"Communications" is a catch-all term for products and divisions which deal with routers, data center servers, wireless standards, cellphone chipsets, the X-Scale/Strongarm microcontrollers, and (maybe) forays into optical subsystems.
Buying Cisco, now that would be a big gamble.
But the lumping-together of all sorts of products and divisions which are not explicity PC-related under the umbrella term "communications" is not at all a major gamble. Put another way, probably every company in Silicon Valley is pursuing "communications."
--Tim May |
