Grove not practicing what he preached news.com
Dang, another off topic post, from another press boob whose views conveniently agree with mine. So, I'll recycle them, I'm not proud. Jai Singh, editor, news.com. Since we always read that Intel is an investor in Cnet, we can rest assured that Jai is mearly doing his job of selling advertising here. Quoted without comment.
Enter the inflection point. Despite Grove's best-laid plans, he could not put the sub-$1,000 genie back in the bottle. Only now is the chip giant coming up with a product line--oddly named Celeron--to tackle this cheap PC beast. While it might seem unthinkable that missing this inflection point will be Intel's Achilles heel, it could logically be one reason that Grove decided to step aside.
Carrying on probably would have meant reading assessments like this one from Forrester Research analyst Carl Howe: "Intel's late arrival with chips targeted at sub-$1,000 PCs and its attempt to migrate computer builders to its proprietary architectures echo IBM's failed attempt to move PC users to its patented Microchannel."
Ouch! IBM, Microchannel, and Intel in the same breath--that certainly would be too much for even the most paranoid to handle.
Cheers, Dan. |
