My colleague Brian Caulfield points out to me that Intel already offers similar functionality for PCs via its vPro technology, which is built into PC hardware.
To me, ex-Intel (INTC) CEO Paul Otellini seems most likely to go as he was brought in by Schmidt and is more of a Schmidt peer than one for Page.
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As recently as a month ago, journalists were asking me questions about whether Intel was just crushing everyone else in process node technology, leaving them three or four years behind.
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Intel actually was very kind about letting me go and do that and giving me the space to have a different moment of intellectual work.
HP, Intel: These are names, that to me, have too many issues going on here.
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After realizing how helpful it was hear an objective view of my value, I started gathering intel from people who were similarly non-competitive with me: I asked my former boss for his advice, and my friend who works in finance.
"I have a rule, one that was honed by more than 30 years in high tech, " Intel's chairman, Andy Grove, once e-mailed me.
The data also prompted to me to recommend to my subscribers to sell long positions in Microsoft and Intel.
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Easy, and if you don't believe me, read George Gilder or look into some of the projects underway at Intel and some of the new chip companies like MicroUnity.
Founded by Jerry Sanders, a larger-than-life figure who mentored Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, AMD transformed itself from a me-too manufacturer of PC processors into a company with enough technical brilliance to force Intel to change its designs.
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