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Intel Admits To Falling Behind AMD
Vicegrip writes "CNN is carrying a Fortune story covering an analyst meeting held on Thursday. There, CEO Otellini admitted Intel has fallen behind AMD with lost market share, technological leadership, and recently profitability. Intel also announced cuts to 1 Billion in spending." From the article: "Intel's market share recently slipped below 80%, and Otellini strongly emphasized the need for market share gains in all his remarks. On the other hand, he also suggested that Intel's recent market share losses (to AMD, whose name was not mentioned) were in line with historical variations which tracked to Intel's product generations."
In other news, CEO Steve Jobs was just rescued from his leaky rowboat by the USS Itanic. Everyone on board congratulated him on his suave sense of style in holding out to be rescued by such an acknowledged, unsinkable leader...
There is a good possibility that some other player may come out of nowhere and pass up both Intel and AMD. The reason is that current processors are based on a computing model that has not changed drastically since the days of Charles Babbage and Lady Lovelace. They are all optiminsed for the algorithm. Problem is that basing software on the alogorithm is the primary reason for the current software reliability crisis. Switch to a signal-based, synchronous software model and the problem will disappear. Will either Intel or AMD heed the warning? I doubt it. Those two are cookies cut from the same cookie cutter. They are way too busy looking for advantages within the current paradigm to notice the world passing them by before it's too late. Fortunately, there are other players in the game and somebody is bound to see the writing on the wall.
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