• Bell@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    No mention of mobile? Intel completely missed the chance to make the CPUs we are all holding in our hands.

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      4 months ago

      They had a line of mobile arm based processors that were powering windows mobile devices but they sold that division to Marvell 6 months before the launch of the iPhone, in order to focus on x86

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        4 months ago

        Intel has also made a similar blunder by trying GPUs and abandoning them (they got there early with the i740, then Larrabee). Saving a few dollars by gutting emerging products line has cost them billions