[chbot] [OT] Marketing vs Engineering - the Intel x86

[Charles Manning]

Unfortunately Intel still seem to have this mindset. Instead of generating
great products (which they are capable of), they continue to try to body
slam the industry.

Intel have amazine process capability that allows them to take a rubbish
architecture like x86 and still make a reasonable go of that.

What would be amazing would be taking that Intel process capability that
gives them Atoms and applying it to a modern architecture (eg. ARM). That
would put them ahead of anyone else.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Way back in the mists of time, Intel released (in my opinion) one of the
> worst computer architectures known to man (or to least me).
>
> At the time, their product was being beaten into the ground by the Mot
> 68000, and the Zilog Z8000.
>
> Then Intel launched the 'Crush' programme - a massive Marketing assault on
> the newly created processor industry.
>
> This is quite a long video, and there are some smart people behind this
> attack. They discuss lots of details including strategy and tactics of this
> offensive, including hiring and motivating staff, along with performance
> metrics.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvCzdeDoPzg
>
> Not sure this directly relates to robotics, but it can be useful to pop
> your head out of the trenches occasionally and see what some of the rest of
> the world are up to, and how.
>
> Hopefully see you Monday eve at BR05.
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
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