Oct 18, 2023·edited Oct 18, 2023Liked by Rich Slutzky
Staying out of the really deep weeds is very tough on this subject, but great job.
I was in the biz in late 80's thru mid-2010's, saw alot of this close up and don't claim objectivity.
My opinion is Intel was a much better manufacturing behemoth than technology leader. In silicon, the FPGA, DSP, and Network processor guys were thinking outside the CPU box, while Intel had one winner. (aside from DRAM and flash, but were talking "core" stuff here) Of course, the former are all gone as stand alone companies, and Intel remains. (AMD was kept alive mainly to keep the Feds anti-trust guys off of Intel's back).
They were also tied very closely to Windows, the infamous WinTel machine. As Microsoft seemingly NEVER deleted a line of code from one version to the next, the overhead just to boot it up was horrendous, whereas Apple's OS was different from the git-go. Kind of innovators dilemma.
Oddly fascinating. I think that’s testament to your writing. Computer chipzzzzzzzzzzzz are not usually capable of raising even an eyelash on me. But hey, always a first.
I did chuckle internally to my caption for the Jobs/intel guy photo…
Weird Space Alien presents gift to Earth Astronaut…..
There was some book about a computer company of the eighties. Soul of a New machine, Kidder. What you are writing about reminds me of that. That is my one connection to this information.
Staying out of the really deep weeds is very tough on this subject, but great job.
I was in the biz in late 80's thru mid-2010's, saw alot of this close up and don't claim objectivity.
My opinion is Intel was a much better manufacturing behemoth than technology leader. In silicon, the FPGA, DSP, and Network processor guys were thinking outside the CPU box, while Intel had one winner. (aside from DRAM and flash, but were talking "core" stuff here) Of course, the former are all gone as stand alone companies, and Intel remains. (AMD was kept alive mainly to keep the Feds anti-trust guys off of Intel's back).
They were also tied very closely to Windows, the infamous WinTel machine. As Microsoft seemingly NEVER deleted a line of code from one version to the next, the overhead just to boot it up was horrendous, whereas Apple's OS was different from the git-go. Kind of innovators dilemma.
Oddly fascinating. I think that’s testament to your writing. Computer chipzzzzzzzzzzzz are not usually capable of raising even an eyelash on me. But hey, always a first.
I did chuckle internally to my caption for the Jobs/intel guy photo…
Weird Space Alien presents gift to Earth Astronaut…..
There was some book about a computer company of the eighties. Soul of a New machine, Kidder. What you are writing about reminds me of that. That is my one connection to this information.