Article about Otellini's tenure at Intel

[Vesku]

Perhaps his iPhone regret is a roundabout way of saying he shouldn't have been so committed to x86 with the selling off of Xscale. Well, at least he got 10 times what Dirk got for Imageon.

 

[Cerb]

Perhaps his iPhone regret is a roundabout way of saying he shouldn't have been so committed to x86 with the selling off of Xscale. Well, at least he got 10 times what Dirk got for Imageon.

Did Apple want an Xscale? IIRC, Xscale never did impress, in the power department, though it did finally help put an end to i960 RAID cards . Or, did they want something a bit more...custom?

 

[BallaTheFeared]

I don't blame him for passing on the iPhone, I don't think anyone realized how revolutionary it would be at the time except maybe Steve Jobs.

He said his gut told me yes, but all the data said no... I wonder how much that affected his future choices...

You have to admire what he's done, everyone makes mistakes though. Or you can hate him, because when it comes down to it this is the guy that put so much pressure on AMD they ended up folding like a deck of cards.

If Intel is shifting their R&D into taking over the ULP market, the smart money is on them doing it.

As it is, the company machinery under him spun off $66 billion in profit (i.e. net income), as compared with the $68 billion posted by his predecessors. The $11 billion Intel earned in 2012 easily beats the sum total ($9.5) posted by Qualcomm ($6.1), Texas Instruments ($1.8), Broadcom ($0.72), Nvidia ($0.56), and Marvel ($0.31), not to mention its old rival AMD, which lost more than a billion dollars.

I think the next couple years will see an end to AMD vs Intel and a new dawn of an epic battle of Intel vs Everyone else. I will enjoy watching it :thumbsup:

 

[Vesku]

Did Apple want an Xscale? IIRC, Xscale never did impress, in the power department, though it did finally help put an end to i960 RAID cards . Or, did they want something a bit more...custom?

XScale housed their ARM license, it would have been quite embarrassing re-licensing with ARM after having just sold off that unit. Edit: Apparently the XScale unit didn't even have a full license, but a license for a particular core/instruction set. Marvell who bought XScale has a full license. Picture is coming together, based on their projected iPhone sales Intel just didn't see the need to face all that "Intel embracing ARM" press they'd be getting.