When Apple first announced the switch to Intel chips three years ago this month, Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner didn’t expect a chummy research relationship, even though the Silicon Valley companies’ headquarters are just 15 minutes apart. Friends had warned him that Steve Jobs and his crew of iconoclasts have little patience for the futuristic stuff of research labs – they’re on the hunt for bold ideas they can build into products within months, not years.
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Source; Fortune
Jun 15, 2008, 10:11 PM
