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Crossroads for Intel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the road-ahead dept.

pillageplunder writes "Businessweek offers a pretty balanced read on what challenges Intel faces in the upcoming year. Rivals Samsung and AMD are making inroads on Intels core businesses, an expected cyclical industry downturn looms next year, and with several critical delays in new (for Intel) markets puts its strategy at risk. A neat read."

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  1. Hmmmm by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    problems at Intel, problems at Microsoft. Could it be that some companies just get too big for their own good?
    Happened to other comanies, just look at US Steel, in 1918 they represented 3% of the GDP of the US, but they got too big, and eventually competetitors, both at home and abroad ate up most of that.

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    Monstar L
    1. Re:Hmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not really comperable. Steel is a generic product where there's little brand loyalty, and essentially no product differentiation. Microsoft and Intel, on the other hand, make products that no one can make directly--you can compete with similar products, but some shop in Taiwan can't turn out Pentium IV's.