Comments on: How Serious Is Intel About Pushing Atom for Servers?

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:36:52 +0000

I agree that it looks like Intel is hedging its Atom strategy, but Intel does have one thing that no one else has: a Fortune 100 built on business selling processors. It will be interesting to see if it can use its market dominance to push whatever its agenda is.

By: Lucian Armasu

Lucian Armasu — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:51:55 +0000

This is exactly how they’ve been behaving in the netbook market. They’ve barely improved the Atom CPU over the years, because they didn’t want it to evolve too much and become good enough for low-end laptops, where they could sell processors such as Core i3 instead.

Their only weapon against ARM chips is Atom *if* they cam manage to make it as energy efficient and cheap. But it’s obvious they have a conflict of interest in truly promoting the Atom chip against their other chips, and a conflict of interest when deciding how fast to upgrade the performance of Atom. Because of this, Atom will remain behind new ARM chips, while those ARM chips from Nvidia, TI, Qualcomm and Samsung will start being powerful enough to be used with Windows (and Chrome OS/Android) in notebooks and even servers.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:21:15 +0000

What is going on at Intel? The company is behaving like they’re running scared.

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/03/21/chip-shot-anand-chandrasekher-to-leave-intel-mike-bell-dave-whalen-to-lead-ultra-mobility-group