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Same company that completely missed the boat on mobile not that many years later. Intel have consistently made serious mistakes in their strategic direction. Fumbling 64bit, turning Apple down on mobile, missing GPU/AI.

They are basically just building a better version of the same product they were selling 20 years ago… so much opportunity missed here.

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You mean this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200

I think they're referring to the Core/Penryn series (the "direct" ancestor to modern Intel x86s).

But even that goes back to the P6->P5->486->386->286->8086->8088->8080->8008->CTC lineage of 50+yrs. It literally just cuts out the few years of the abandoned NetBurst architecture.

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