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The Inside Scoop on Intel Inside and Other Intel Marketing Successes – Part 11
Weissberger invites Dave to share his long time, working relationship with Andy Grove. When Dave first met Andy, the latter felt that “marketing was a waste of time and sales was a waste of energy.” But once Grove became CEO, he broadened his view and ideas about marketing. Dave describes a 1984 IBM industry event he participated to commemorate the…
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Ted Hoff on Intel Founder Gordon Moore – Part 12
Weissberger lets Ted have the last word by describing his relationship with Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. Hoff recounts an early visit to Moore’s office and an IEEE technical meeting where Gordon was a panelist. Moore would hold semiconductor process information very “close to the vest.” When Moore was asked, “Could you tell us how much Si…
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Intel Missing the Mobile Computing Boom vs. Servers & Cloud Computing – Part 13
Ted expresses his concern that the financial media has not been kind to Intel. The company is portrayed as lucky when it succeeds or that the market is evaporating when competitors fall behind. Dave adds that “the biggest mistake companies make is falling in love with a strategy.” Yet the mobile computing business would be…
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The Story on the Intel Supercomputer – Part 14
Computer historian Roy Mize asks “what ever happened to Intel’s supercomputers.” Dave says Intel always had a research activity, headed by Justin Rattner (now Intel CTO). That group developed a hyper-cube supercomputer – composed of multiple microprocessors- that was sold to the government. Intel is now out of that business. Dave was still at Intel when they…
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What about the 432? – Part 15
An audience member asks, “No one remembers the Intel 432 (microprocessor). Please provide a brief summary.” Dave says that when he first came to Intel, Justin Rattner made a proposal for the 8800-an object-oriented machine that was to replace the 8080 microprocessor. House traces through various iterations of the 8800, which eventually became the 432. Ted recalls…
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Who Made 286 Clone Chips? – Part 16
During the Q&A, an audience member asks who else (besides Intel) made the 286 microprocessor? Dave answers that IBM made the 286 for its own internal use, while AMD second sourced the part. He didn’t think anyone else had a legitimate license to make “286 clone chips.” Shortly after 9pm, Weissberger closes the panel session…
