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Intel CEO Bob Swan stepping down, VMWare's Pat Gelsinger will take over
During his prior time as CTO of Intel from 2000-2005, Gelsinger championed the architecture that depending on ever increasing clock speeds. It turned out to be a disaster. He completely underestimated current leakage and power consumption. This was the Pentium 4, which peaked at 3.8GHz and led to rapid overheating. It is the basic architectural approach that dooms Intel to this day
He was also responsible as CTO for Itanium, another complete failure
His other big failure was the "Pentium M" effort whose goal was to reduce power and create more mobile solutions. Intel has completely failed in mobile. There never was any type of scalable mobile platform developed
This is the guy everyone is heralding today as Intel's savior
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Apple Car arriving in 2025 at the earliest, says Ming-Chi Kuo
flydog said:
I don’t see the logical connection between the dollars spent in R&D and the conclusion that because it’s a certain amount that it MUST be for a car. Or that if a certain amount is spent then it’s wasted unless spent on car development.red oak said:I find it very hard to believe how Apple could be spending $20 billion in R&D and NOT be preparing to enter and win in a new, very large market. The current product lineup and adjacent categories cannot possibly require that amount of resources
Either Apple is wasting R&D spend a la IBM, or it has very ambitious plans. It would be nice not to have to wait another 8 years to see what "new" new thing comes nextAmazon spent over $22 billion on R&D last year. Is Amazon wasting money or developing a car?—————-
That Amazon number is wrong. Way over inflated
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Apple Car may automatically tint windows for better safety and privacy
"Apple Car". LOL -
Apple Card adoption and use benefitting from the coronavirus pandemic
Apple needs an aggressive international rollout. Too slow, too US focused.It launched big and then stalled
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Tim Cook's leadership style has 'reshaped how Apple staff work and think'
Apple's R&D spend tripled in the past 5 years to $18 Billion/yr. Apple's cash flow allows them to both invest HUGE amounts in the future of Apple AND return capital to shareholders
