(Yeah, the title is screwed up. I blame lack of coffee.)
Yahoo had a chance to buy Google and their new pagerank algorithm in 1998 for $1M - pagerank was something completely new and turned the still nascent search engine business upside down. They were made another, more expensive offer in 2002, turning it down as well. Fast forward a few years, and Yahoo! is a fading star, with Google having pushed pretty much everyone else out of the business. At one time, before they started manipulating everything ad infinitum, pagerank was a good way to present results.
Now? Who is Yahoo? Oh, yeah, they're that place that has the finance page. I think they do mail as well. They're literally just another name, collected with other faded stars, under a common banner by Apollo Capital and Verizon. A lot of Yahoo's failed acquisitions have been sold off for pennies in an attempt to recoup cash.
How does that relate to Intel? Intel is also a fading star. They had a chance to buy a good share of OpenAI and turned it down. Fast forward a few years, OpenAI is doing pretty good and it's the hot buzzword right now - much like Google was when they offered themselves to Yahoo. Intel has shot a lot of toes off. TSMC is a successful foundry that isn't owned by a chip maker, so they cater to everyone, something Intel can't do. The WinTel Empire took it's first hit when Intel didn't want to work with Apple, now ARM-cores are strong enough to provide fully functional environments for Windows. Intel is late to the game with NPUs in processors. Product quality is slipping, and they really don't have any compelling things left, and only started to expand at the promise of free money from the government. They're cutting off fingers in an attempt to stop the bleeding - cutting people, research, even talking about selling off those expansions from the free money grab, expansions they haven't even promised they're going to use at all.
How much longer does this company have before it becomes a faded star and is acquired under an umbrella of some capital company?
(Yeah, the title is screwed up. I blame lack of coffee.)
Yahoo had a chance to buy Google and their new pagerank algorithm in 1998 for $1M - pagerank was something completely new and turned the still nascent search engine business upside down. They were made another, more expensive offer in 2002, turning it down as well. Fast forward a few years, and Yahoo! is a fading star, with Google having pushed pretty much everyone else out of the business. At one time, before they started manipulating everything ad infinitum, pagerank was a good way to present results.
Now? Who is Yahoo? Oh, yeah, they're that place that has the finance page. I think they do mail as well. They're literally just another name, collected with other faded stars, under a common banner by Apollo Capital and Verizon. A lot of Yahoo's failed acquisitions have been sold off for pennies in an attempt to recoup cash.
How does that relate to Intel? Intel is also a fading star. They had a chance to buy a good share of OpenAI and turned it down. Fast forward a few years, OpenAI is doing pretty good and it's the hot buzzword right now - much like Google was when they offered themselves to Yahoo. Intel has shot a lot of toes off. TSMC is a successful foundry that isn't owned by a chip maker, so they cater to everyone, something Intel can't do. The WinTel Empire took it's first hit when Intel didn't want to work with Apple, now ARM-cores are strong enough to provide fully functional environments for Windows. Intel is late to the game with NPUs in processors. Product quality is slipping, and they really don't have any compelling things left, and only started to expand at the promise of free money from the government. They're cutting off fingers in an attempt to stop the bleeding - cutting people, research, even talking about selling off those expansions from the free money grab, expansions they haven't even promised they're going to use at all.
How much longer does this company have before it becomes a faded star and is acquired under an umbrella of some capital company?
