spinner903

What's crazy to me is how many companies discount what a "lifestyle" company can do when you have really smart people with really specific goals and really long product roadmaps can accomplish. Maybe it's Intel that is in the wrong business when it tries to accomplish technical gains while balancing the financial constraints of delivering its chips, which in essence are just commodities. It's similar to Qualcomm. There's hubris to think that other companies can't deliver better overall products if they are able to custom design hardware and software that deliver a product that isn't a commodity.

Intel does need to do a lot more, but they either need to decide that the product they deliver is a commodity (a name brand commodity at that) and that they will never again make the profits they once did or they need to specialize and push the envelope with tightly integrated products that use their chips. My guess is they will do the former, but no one will care that they have "Intel Inside" in their computer in the next 5 to 10 years.