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Tuesday, August 05, 2003

Intel exec speaks out on Jobs, Apple
Intel has been curiously silent during the entire controversy surrounding Apple's inflated claims for the G5. Until now. In an interview with Edmonton Journal, Intel senior VP and chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger answered a few questions about Steve Jobs, Apple, and the G5. His comments were dead-on. "In Apple's 3% of the market share, people say they can't innovate when they (Apple) control the hardware or the software. In our horizontal market anybody at any layer can largely and independently perform independent innovation. Now when you add up those two models, at the end of the day, the horizontal one wins most of the time and that's what we've committed ourselves and our industry to ... I think Steve Jobs has made the wrong CPU choice for 20 years, he just added a few more years to the life of his bad decisions. Steve's not an illogical guy, he's passionate and opinionated about the directions he wants is a poor path for the company as well as a poor path for the users ... Our chips would help Apple could find ways to open up more applications for themselves, a broader set of products, we have Centrino mobile products that are stunningly good. I don't think it's a good decision for Apple or for their customers, but they've done a good job of turning the company back around at the same time so you can't discount all the things that they're doing and all the decisions they've made." The interview is largely non-Apple related and worth reading. His comments about the future of notebooks is particularly interesting, for example: "I have this vision of the 111A laptop - one pound, one inch, one day and "always" connected anywhere, running for 12 hours on batteries...but that is three or four years away."

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