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Intel has a history of fostering innovation outside of its mainstay x86 product and then killing it.
Their wordsIntel has a long, long (long!) track record of fostering innovation outside of its mainstay x86 product - and then killing it.
Their wordsIntel's strategic mistakes were (in my opinion) symptomatic of an acute cultural problem: the company still carried with it the inherited arrogance from an earlier age.
Their wordsWhile I think his dichotomy is a bit reductive, Ben Horowitz's nomenclature is useful here: Intel needed a wartime CEO - but in maintaining a dividend that it couldn't afford, Gelsinger was committing the ultimate peacetime act.
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