Otellini: soft-spoken, ruthless and an Intel lifer
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Intel selects consummate insider as next CEO. Can he take Intel beyond the PC?
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news analysis Intel selects consummate insider as next CEO. Can he take Intel beyond the PC?
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In-Q-Tel funds another CEO A former Intel executive has been slotted into the revolving door that is CIA-backed In-Q-Tel's CEO post.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Facing a market glut of microprocessors and weak corporate demand for PCs running Microsoft's new Windows Vista OS, Intel hopes to stay profitable by producing new chip designs faster than its competitors, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said Monday. "There's clearly more capacity to build microprocessors than there is demand in 2007, and probably in 2008," Otellini told financial analysts at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco. To decrease the impact of a head-to-head processor pricing war with rival AMD, Intel must return to the quick development habits it used when producing its Pentium family of chips, Otellini said. Intel backed off that pace after producing the Pentium 4 and soon began to lose market share whenÂ AMD launched the Opteron chip in 2003. "We're doing product refreshes every two years, which is the model we invented and then stopped doing after Pentium 4, shame on us," Otellini said. "We fell off it -- mea culpa, we screwed up -- and now we're back on that pace." The company has announced a pace of upgrading its processor architecture and shrinking its transistor geometry in alternating years. That puts Intel on schedule to upgrade its 65nm Core 2 Duo processor to a "Penryn" 45nm geometry chip in 2007. The following year, Intel will upgrade its Core microarchitecture to the new "Nehalem" model and in 2009 shrink those chips to an even smaller, 32nm scale. That strategy will allow Intel to preserve its dominant market share in the processor industry, which has swung in the past 15 years from a low of 72 percent to a high of 87 percent, Otellini said. "Staying in that range is our modus operandi, and the higher end of that range is better than the lower end," he said. Excess production tends to force chip prices down, so Intel needs a way to convince buyers it has a unique product. Even in a market glut, customers will continue to buy the top chip in each category, Otellini said. The company plans to do that with its technology platforms, including Centrino for wireless notebooks, vPro for business desktops, and Viiv for home media center PCs. "In terms of pricing, it remains very competitive. But we believe you can show differentiation through platforms. Platforms like Centrino can insulate us from the commoditization of the notebook, just as vPro can insulate us from the commoditization of the desktop," Otellini said. Intel needs to push its own pace of development because the market has not produced an expected jump in demand for PCs using Microsoft's Windows Vista OS. "Vista will play out like XP did," Otellini said in reference to Microsoft's last major OS launch. "People won't upgrade the OS on the machine, they will buy it on a new machine when they need to do that. I think people will like Vista as they play with it -- it's nicer and prettier. For those who use Macs, it's closer to the Mac than we've seen for a long time." Despite that growing momentum for consumer Vista sales, corporate IT managers will continue to migrate more slowly, he said. "I know of no organization that is going to adopt it before Service Pack 1 is out -- that's in the second half of this year -- and that includes us. Starting in the second half of this year, we'll do a modest deployment and continue into next year. That's the large company approach for all the people I've talked to." Â
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SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. executives will spend part of Wednesday at the Intel Developer Forum talking about Yonah, the company's first dual-core notebook chip, said Paul Otellini, president and chief operating officer at Intel, during a meeting with reporters Tuesday in San Francisco.
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CEO tells why the move to multicore chips is a necessary one, and how Intel "ate crow." Also: the Microsoft and AMD factors.
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A chip the size of a fingernail and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second is unveiled by Intel.
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just in Intel&#39;s board of directors has voted that Paul Otellini will be its next chief executive officer, eventually replacing Craig Barrett, who announced his intention to step down from the top spot earlier this year.
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Intel&#39;s board of directors has elected current president and chief operating officer Paul Otellini as its next chief executive, succeeding Craig Barrett, who was named new chairman of the board.
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Intelâs complete lineup of processors for desktops, notebooks and servers will migrate to a dual- and multi-core architecture in 2005, company president and chief operating officer Paul Otellini said yesterday in a keynote speech at the IDF (Intel
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Intel's outgoing CEO takes on the tech industry and politics in an outspoken keynote address.
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Whoops IDF Intel CEO Paul Otellini has finally confirmed the company's plan to return to the discrete graphics chip market, although the confirmation did not come easy.â¦
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Intel's presentation at a conference next week appears set to confirm many rumored details of the chip's architecture and characteristics.
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When heir apparent Paul Otellini takes the reins, what will the chipmaker look like?
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Craig Barrett, Intel Corp.&#39;s 6-foot-3- inch chief executive, walked onto a stage during a industry conference in Florida last week, got down on his knees in front of more than 6,000 technology managers, and begged forgiveness.
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Remember. When criticizing others in a crowded room, someone will hear you. CNET's Michael Kanellos attends a speech by Nicholas Negroponte at CES 2008.
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(InfoWorld) - The former engineering major in me got a nice surprise Tuesday afternoon when Intel's Gordon Moore (that's right, the guy behind The Law) spoke at the Intel Developer Forum Tuesday. Tech Nation's Moira Gunn hosted an hour-long conversation with Moore, and while I'm not usually one to go all weak-kneed at the sight of tech-industry giants, I have to admit that the father of Moore's Law got me going. Moore shared his thoughts on more than 40 years in the semiconductor industry and really helped bring into focus exactly how far we've come. The entire conversation will be available as a webcast shortly, but here are a few of my favorite tidbits: * On what the world would look like today if the integrated circuits Moore helped develop hadn't taken off, and computers were still built from individual transistors and components: There was an early projection by one of the few companies making transistors that eventually they could get the cost of a transistor down to 68 cents. Well, the IC did take off, and "today you buy them for 10 picobucks!" * Intel wasn't close to the first choice as a name for the company. It was initially called Moore-Noyce Electronics and a nice punny little name they used to initially incorporate the firm, but they ran through five or six candidates for a real name before they got Intel cleared as a trademark. Apparently it used to be standard procedure to clear such names in New York and California and assume that that got you the rest of the U.S. Of course, Moore said, "Then we ended up having to buy 'Intel' from a hotel company in the Midwest." Score one for the flyover states. * On innovation in general: "The most exciting things are usually in the interfaces, and there's lots of exciting stuff going on [now] in the interface between computers and biology." * Finally, what was Moore excited about for the next decades of technology? "We're going to get to the point where computers have really good language recognition ... where you interact with your computer the way you interact with your colleagues." Gordon, I can't wait. PC World is an InfoWorld affiliate