alt Hacker NewsThe main problem is that they often don't stick with it.
As far as I can tell, Intel more-or-less pioneered the idea of SSDs being the best storage rather than the cheap storage, for instance. The X25-M and X25-E were absurdly good. Then, once the market was established...they pulled out of it.
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Then, once the market was established...they pulled out of it.
This makes perfect sense given that Intel's target margins are pretty high. They only want to sell advanced tech, not commodities. Once SSDs became commoditized Intel was out.
It's possible that Intel wanted to seed the SSD industry.
They knew it wouldn't be profitable enough long term, but it would increase demand for their products.
An extreme and related example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opticom_(company)
Popular science kind of backgrounder (can't vouch for the accuracy/relevancy - details are very scarce): https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/digital-logic/polymer-memory/
I’m still waiting for the Intel Arc B770 since a 5060 Ti and 9060 XT are already overpriced and if they just committed to something for once it wouldn’t be marginally worse.
Not that releasing the GPU would be something super innovative, they already have the B70.