Intel Corp (INTC)

[The Duke of URL]

In all fairness, Netburst was a marketing not a technical decision.

Banias was an accident, a fluke, and the decision to implement it was obvious in light of the heat issues.

Rambus was not so much an Intel mistake as it was a Rambus mistake. I think Andy Grove told them to make it more open and soft pedal it with the Dramarai, and Rambus decided it was "Damn the torpedo's" which meant that the Dramarai dropped the price of dram to the basement to make Rambus unattractive, even tho Rambus was eventually proved right....after 5 years of litigation.

Barrett was in love with Netburst and built 37 new factories to produce it.

True, Andy's plan seemed to be to bring Barrett in to increase capacity and Otellini in to sell the stuff after, but that in and of itself was not such a bad idea.

And Barrett may have clung to Netburst a little to long and 32 bit a little too long out of fear of cannibalizing Itanium (which was originally Gordon Moore's decision), but that doesn't excuse Barrett's what I think are 300 million dollars worth of stock options and paying 1.6 for Dialogic.