THE sorts of material we receive from and about Intel is embarrassingly shallow. The company has put its future in the ends of clueless clowns, who are better at reciting buzzwords and putting together fancy presentations at the expense of technical arguments.
"Intel is pivoting towards Microsoft also for clown computing," told us a former Intel insider, "because Amazon, Oracle and other clown companies are moving towards (their own) ARM processors for their respective clowns [and] at least with Microsoft they will be able to sell their processors for running backdoored servers and desktops in the clown..."
We've already heard all about the backlash at Intel. They're being pushed around by people who instead of striving to make better products basically cheat the market.
To give an example, the former insider quotes European authorities as saying: "First, according to the contested decision, Intel awarded four OEMs, namely Dell, Lenovo, HP and NEC, rebates which were conditioned on these OEMs purchasing all or almost all of their x86 CPUs from Intel. Similarly, Intel awarded payments to MSH, which were conditioned on MSH selling exclusively computers containing Intel’s x86 CPUs."
"But Intel has changed logos," I jokingly responded, "so all is forgotten now..."
Here's an article about the slap-on-the-wrist fines, noting that Intel "paid retail stores rebates to only stock x86 parts."
"competing on merit my ***," said the former insider. Ryan noted that "Intel-based laptops have gotten MUCH cheaper lately." Increased competition tends to lead to that and Intel never tolerated competition. It has this in common with Microsoft. "Lenovo knocked the $1,500 Thinkbooks down to like $850," Ryan added, as "probably Intel and Microsoft had to lower their prices significantly. There's just not much more you can do with a Windows computer these days than with anyone else's."
The latest news suggests that Intel will lose some of its biggest clients. This will be a boon to GNU/Linux and hardware from Chinese firms (with or without back doors, which Intel has anyway).
Big blow to Intel, do doubt...
The video above does not deal with the fluff Intel commissioned or paid for; instead it speaks in more general terms about the aimlessness of the company, driving away its talent while pulling in Microsoft's orbit (and then imposing it on GNU/Linux developers).
This document which we show here (HRI tools analysis report) is a research report from a 3rd party to Intel, in effect "recommending Microsoft/proprietary tools," including "the recommendation to partner with Microsoft," according to a source. We'll come to this at a later stage and discuss the ramifications. In the meantime we can dwell in the superficiality and lack of insight. ⬆