The Black Box

[gottfried]

must read BW cover story on the new Intel http://www.businessweek.com/technology/index.html
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_02/b3966001.htm?chan=tc
can't believe they hired 20k in one year

20,000 New Faces
Intel has tried entering new markets in the past, particularly under Barrett. Yet it always treated them as tangential and never let them detract from the core processor effort. Not anymore. Otellini, who took over as CEO in May, has reorganized the company top to bottom, putting most of its 98,000 employees into new jobs. He created business units for each product area, including mobility and digital health, and scattered the processor experts among them. He has also added 20,000 people in the past year. The result? Intel is poised to launch more new products in 2006 than at any time in its history.