Intel and the Danger of Integration
I really think this article fails to make its point about what exactly intel stands to gain from say, manufacturing processors for Apple. It trades in its major competitive advantage, advanced processes (dispite the propaganda intel is far from out of the game process advantage wise) coupled tightly with its processor designs that ensure margins that would make most companies blush, for low margin hypercompetitive contract work.<p>Intel is under absolutely no real threat of being unseated as the company that powers virtually every server in existence, throwing that away to chase contract mfging work dosent make any sense, even if some other companies do it well. The arguement it makes would be more like intel going back into DRAM production, and abandoning x86.