Hack bursts into flames in Intel, Otellini fury

INFOWORLD HACK Tom Yager reports that Paul Otellini, Intel's CEO, apologised to the world+dog during a Morgan Stanley presentation earlier this week.

Tom Yager compares the mass dump of Netbust processors last year to a massive fireworks display where everything goes off at the same time.

Really his argument is that Intel "shot its entire wad" on its Core processors and is seeking to kill AMD by forcing prices down although the smaller competitor will have the advantage when its Catalonian Barcelona processor emerges in the middle of the year.

Tom reckons that Otellini should be preparing a golden parachute for himself and may not last the year while the board of directors at Chipzilla should take time to choose his successor. He thinks the fact Intel has laid off 10,500 workers will make it difficult to play engineering ketchup with AMD.

This is fighting talk.

We know here at the INQ that around this time last year Otellini was under quite a lot of pressure to start kicking butt, quite a lot. But you can't blame Steely Paul for the Netbust architecture which contained the seeds of its own limitations when it was launched.

The entertaining Infoworld read is here. µ