> Intel at its core is a marketing company
It would be interesting to hear your other adages if this is anything to go by.
It would be interesting to hear your other adages if this is anything to go by.
Given they’ve led the charge technologically in CPUs for decades this is extremely high praise. I think people are taking this as suggesting Intel does not innovate technologically which is not the case.
The video provides evidence of the tech being nice but not required. They openly admit their CPU was “a dog” and all the software people hated it. Yet their strategy of going around them to management worked perfectly.
People forget how awful segmented 16-bit was. And other CPUs like the 68000 and Alpha were faster at various points in time.