Intel’s Chief on Strategy, Globalization and the Price of Oil

Slashdot It! In a wide-ranging conversation with New York Times editors and reporters Wednesday, Intel’s chief executive, Paul Otellini, explained the grand plan behind the chip maker’s new Atom microprocessor, took a gentlemanly swipe at Apple’s iPhone and called on the next president to commit $25 billion to alternative fuel programs to liberate the economy from imported oil and “reinvigorate math and science” education in America. The low-cost Atom processor, Mr. Otellini said, is Intel’s bid to supply the processing engines that will help vastly expand the reach of the Internet beyond personal computers. He noted “four big new markets for our products” that will total $10 billion over the next few years. The four, he said, were consumer electronics, cellphones, embedded controllers and low-cost computing. The last market includes so-called mobile Internet devices — larger than a cellphone but smaller than a notebook PC — and next-generation laptops called Netbooks, priced below $300. Via NYT Get Daily Updates via Email Protect your computer with Windows Onecare