Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

Does your view extend to management and marketing as well as engineering? My speculation is that external forces to the engineering team may have been pulling them in different directions. Sounds like I maybe grasping at straws in an effort to try and get a better understanding for some of the recent design decisions made on the product.

There was a massive schism between the HP/Intel faction
of the IPF design team in FTC and the Intel former Alpha
design team faction in MA and CA about 15 months ago.

I have heard contradictory accounts from folks from both
of the engineering camps on the general technical details
of this schism and know what eventually transpired. What
I don't know is how and why the decision was made with
respect to input from top Intel and HP management and
the role or extent of any conflicting interests of the two
companies in that decision. It certainly generated a lot of
unnecessary bad blood and subsequent attrition in the
second camp.

But as you said the events of the past few months make
it pretty clear that all major parties involved still have a
strong committment to IPF at the business and strategic
level and things are solidifying on the development side.