It's funny and sad to see how sometimes giant companies miss opportunities and slowly disappear into irrelevance. I'm thinking about Xerox, Sun Microsystems, Novell to name a few ... Some of those are still around, but they do things differently, different things altogether, and their impact on the market is a pale shadow of what they once were. Mrk
Wow, totally forgot about Novell, apparently it's now owned by OpenText. However, I don't think that Intel is going anywhere, they are too big too fail at the moment. Or perhaps Qualcomm might perform a takeover next year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell
Yeah, I remember training for a CNE certification back in the day. As soon as NT 4 server came out they pretty much disappeared. As for Intel, they're still gonna be my first choice until something massive happens to them.
I remember Novell being so boring as hell. And yes, as long as people and companies keep buying PC's with Intel CPU's, they should be fine. Of course they did lose the battle for AI domination, it will be hard to catch up with AMD and Nvidia, I guess that's why they will try to focus on their foundries business, where they will compete with TSMC and GlobalFoundries (which used be part of AMD).
It will probably come down to corporate buyers, as I'm guessing most people don't care what's in their PC so will buy whatever the salesperson is pushing. And PC buyers are becoming less common too than they were. Intel really missed the mobile movement before they missed AI. One more strike and they're out? (or maybe AI was the third strike?) Too bad; I liked Intel. But then, there've been a lot of tech companies or brands I liked that are no longer what they were (or are no longer around at all).
