The strife of Brian: Why doomed Intel boss's ex86 may not be the real reason for his hasty exit
Its a whole series of things but apparently its his public prognosis that Intel would be losing upto 20% market share to AMD in sever / data centre that in the end did it.
Its difficult for a CEO when pushed on the question of a resurgent competitor to not give an honest answer, for example AMD were push to predict the success of Llano APU's years ago, so they gave an answer, that answer turned to have over estimated the success in question, AMD were sued by those investors for 'Exaggerating the predicted success of Llano' personally i think if you push someone to make a prediction like that and then make your investment choices based on that prediction and it was wrong that is your bloody fault and yours only, i digress but you see my point? Brain was pushed on what AMD's resurgence meant for Intel and he gave the answer he believed was the most accurate, that answer has upset some but had he said what they wanted to hear, something along the lines of "oh AMD are not real thread to us at all" Intel would have been sued for underplaying AMD's threat.
Rock and a very hard place, i have some sympathy for him.
Its a whole series of things but apparently its his public prognosis that Intel would be losing upto 20% market share to AMD in sever / data centre that in the end did it.
Its difficult for a CEO when pushed on the question of a resurgent competitor to not give an honest answer, for example AMD were push to predict the success of Llano APU's years ago, so they gave an answer, that answer turned to have over estimated the success in question, AMD were sued by those investors for 'Exaggerating the predicted success of Llano' personally i think if you push someone to make a prediction like that and then make your investment choices based on that prediction and it was wrong that is your bloody fault and yours only, i digress but you see my point? Brain was pushed on what AMD's resurgence meant for Intel and he gave the answer he believed was the most accurate, that answer has upset some but had he said what they wanted to hear, something along the lines of "oh AMD are not real thread to us at all" Intel would have been sued for underplaying AMD's threat.
Rock and a very hard place, i have some sympathy for him.
