Qbull, an interesting article “Elephants on a Chip”
Mr. william.alpert@barrons.com article, in addition to the point you made “of course there's no mention that intel's chip is gsm/gprs and not cdma”, also contains a number of other inaccuracies and oversights.
1. >>> “These next-generation chips will feature tiny transistors and, eventually, radio circuitry. Technology for producing such chips, said Thornhill, is beyond the capability of nearly everyone but Intel, TI and IBM. <<<<
They are hardly “next generation” chips in the sense of 3rd generation wireless as they only support the outdated 2nd generation GSM/GPRS. Currently, radio circuitry is “beyond the capability’ of Intel. Currently, and apparently well into the future ( according to their spokesperson who was quoted in another article), CDMA is “beyond the capability” of Intel.
2. >>>That's bad news for "point solution" chipmakers like Agere, Broadcom, Intersil, Marvell Technology, Nvidia and Qualcomm, according to UBS. Such firms don't have much in the way of their own chip factories, says Thornhill's colleague Alex Guana.
If small firms go to IBM for production, says Guana, they'll still lack the economies enjoyed by Intel with its huge PC chip volumes, or Texas Instruments with its cellular handset volumes. <<<<
Apparently the UBS “analysts” and Mr. Alpert are unaware that Qualcomm is the worlds largest fabless semiconductor company and that they also use IBM as one of their foundries.
3.>>> Intel's Manitoba chip includes processors and memory circuits, but still lacks the radio circuitry that would make it a true wireless system-on-a-chip. Radio circuitry has proven tough for Intel to perfect, but the UBS analysts think the chip maker will eventually succeed. <<<
This statement,“Radio circuitry has proven tough for Intel to perfect, but the UBS analysts think the chip maker will eventually succeed”, along with the other misstatements completely discredits the UBS “analysts” and the author. Eventually “Elephants on a Chip” could also fly given enough BS as is included in this article. |
