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Not sure what the point of this article is. For Intel history, read Inside Intel and the "Only the Paranoid Survive" - the Grove book hinted at but not mentioned outright. Can't see anything new here.

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The book is mentioned outright in paragraph seven.

The news to me is that Dr. Grove is teaching at Stanford Business School, and his views on the government bailout of the automobile industry.

Although not mentioned till the very end of the article, his views on patents are interesting and somewhat surprising coming from the former head of Intel. I've thought patent reform has very little chance since the current system is such a short term benefit to the big companies. But maybe even they will start to become aware of the longer term downsides?

Also, note how Intel's chip quality was atrocious in the beginning, kinda like japanese cars in the 60s-70s and korean cars in the recent past.

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