A piece in last week’s Economist profiles the challenges for Microsoft and for Intel as the technology landscape unfolds.  Once locked in the effective “Wintel” partnership that linked Microsoft’s Windows and Intel’s processors to dominate the PC market, both giants are worried by the rise of Apple and Google, and the vast growth in the [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Intel is in negotiations to acquire the wireless chip business of Germany’s Infineon.   Apparently Intel has made previous runs at competing in the market for chips that power mobile phones and other mobile devices, without great success.  If they did become a power, it would consolidate their position [...]

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Intel has reported that the quarter ended 26 June was its best quarter in history.  Revenues were $10.8  billion (up 34% year on year).  Net income was a record $2.9 billion up from a prior year loss of $398 million.  Gross margins were 67%. This looks to me like a sign that the global technology [...]

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A few weeks ago, Forbes published a list of the world’s 28 most reputable companies, as assessed by the Reputation Institute, a specialist consulting firm.  The Institute based its rating on a large scale consumer survey, where respondents were asked to evaluate companies on their reputations with respect to products and services, innovation, workplace quality, [...]

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More on the Interesting Communities of Leadership.   I want to follow two companies who are leaders in providing the hardware for the emerging interconnected world of the 21st century – Intel and Cisco. Intel, Paul Otellini, CEO has Established itself as the world’s leading producer of microprocessors Joined informally with Microsoft in the de [...]

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