Back in 2006, I wrote a post called “The Death of Intel” as the chip maker announced the sell-off of its Marvell Technology Group (which made chips for mobiles) in order to focus on “chips for personal computers and servers amid stiffer competition”.
The reason for my dramatic headline was that if mobile is the future, Intel’s curious decision doomed them in the long term.
It seems that two short years later, they’re certainly back in the game and banging the mobile drum. Sense has apparently prevailed.
They are still hedging their bets on what exactly is a mobile device - they include notebooks - but it seems that Nokia, as an example, is certainly in their sites as a potential customer.
Also interesting is their investment alongside Yahoo!, HP and three universities in a cloud computing project. There was a time when doing something like that without Microsoft as a partner would have looked a little odd.
Not so anymore though.
Hopefully you mean that Nokia is in their “sights” and not “sites”.
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