‘Where would the world be without what Intel has built?’
Intel CEO Paul Otellini has been answering viewers’ questions in a BBC interview, some of which is viewable as an iPlayer clip.
The Beeb chose to highlight his response to a question about a possible US recession in its headline: ‘Intel “will survive US recession”’
Specifically, Otellini said: ‘People turn to computers to improve productivity during downturn, because at the end of the day the computer is a tool for productivity.’
BBC Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones subjected Otellini to only the gentlest of questions and the interview appeared to be primarily a reiteration of the current Intel party line: Atom, Atom, Atom.
For those who don’t feel like watching the vid, selected quotes include: ‘We see the computers of tomorrow as just taking everything to do with electronics and connecting it to the web’
In reference to a jar of Atom CPUs he was holding up, Otellini said: ‘There are 50 billion transistors in this jar – most of which work.’
On the matter of WiMAX: ‘We’re incorporating WiMAX into notebooks starting this year. It starts going into handheld devices starting next year.’
Asked if WiMAX will ever be a mass-market proposition, Otellini said: ‘A year from now you’ll have tens of millions of subscribers and you’ll move to hundreds of millions, say, in two years after that.’
We’ll leave it to you to go through the written part of the interview, but the final quote has to be highlighted: ‘Where would the world be without what Intel has built?’ Where indeed?
Also worth noting is the statement left hanging at at the end of the iPlayer clip:
Isn't the point of the Atom that it's low power?
