Intel head attacks complacency
Published: 02 Jun 2004 12:35 BST
We have seen Intel move away from clock speed and talk more about things like processor speeds. Is that going to be the company's future focus?
We are still interested in performance, but you can drive performance in a whole bunch of different ways. We have not lost any enthusiasm toward faster transistors or toward higher performance. We will just be able to get performance using different technology and different techniques.
Do you foresee more alliances like the Sun-Microsoft and Microsoft-Oracle announcements?
The easiest thing in the world is to announce an alliance. You probably can count on one hand all the successful alliances that brought great technology into the market place.
You talked about recessions being a key in driving sensitivity. To what extent is a more educated customer changing the way you have to do business?
In general, I would think that IT managers are becoming more sophisticated. They are looking for a return on investment -- and interoperability. IT managers are making different demands on the vendors today than they did 5 years ago. Clearly in the 90s, a lot of investment was made in IT infrastructure that did not have huge benefits associated with it.
Is that how you decided to go to dual core sooner?
Well, you know, Intel is in the business of bringing new technology into the marketplace. Our core business is to innovate and integrate and so you innovate new aspects of technology -- whether it is discrete bits of technology -- then you integrate it into the core processor. So going back to an integrated dual core or multi-core approach is what people have been talking about for the last 4 or 5 years.
What sort of markets are ripe for digitisation? What are the industries you see that are going to need this?
Health sciences is a big one just because it is such a huge piece of the gross domestic product of the established economies and they are such relatively slow adopters of technology. With their basic infrastructure in the back office, the health care industries have been pretty sluggish in terms of computerising and taking the cost down.
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