Intel Corp (INTC)

[Sarmad]

re >> You can't rewrite history, ...

Well, it is not a matter of re-writing just one instance of history.

Intel's mode of operation has been to wait until a market becomes mature before starting to participate in it. For instance, it waited until AMD introduced 64-bit processors before making its own x86 64 bit version. Another example is it waited for Sandisk and Toshiba and Samsung to gain nearly all the market share of consumer flash storage before introducing its own products, even though Intel had the technology and patents before anyone else.

And now with low power mobile devices, Intel was leading the field in low power notebook processors, but chose to delay introduction of its own much-lower-power processors until the market grew much larger.

I think the same happened with multi-core processing. I recall AMD introduced that first into consumer PC's.

With these examples, it looks to me it is a deliberate business strategy to wait until a market becomes high volume.