Paul
Otellini the Intel CEO is stepping down today,
and The Atlantic has published an extended profile of the leaving CEO. The content of the
article mostly states that Intel succeeded extremely well under
Otellini's guard, additionally it reveals what might have been: Otellini told
the publication it was his decision to dismiss an opportunity to put Intel
processors in the first Apple iPhone.
He states
to The Atlantic, with disappointment:
"We ended
up not winning it or passing on it, depending on how you want to view it. And
the world would have been a lot different if we'd done it," Otellini told
me in a two-hour conversation during his last month at Intel. "The thing
you have to remember is that this was before the iPhone was introduced and no
one knew what the iPhone would do... At the end of the day, there was a chip
that they were interested in that they wanted to pay a certain price for and
not a nickel more and that price was below our forecasted cost. I couldn't see
it. It wasn't one of these things you can make up on volume. And in hindsight,
the forecasted cost was wrong and the volume was 100x what anyone
thought."
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