The disco ball of Intel's failed hopes

Dexsal · Nov 29, 2004, 05:23 AM

One sign that Intel is having trouble dancing to technology's current beat may be the world's most expensive disco ball. For a company holiday party next month, a handful of engineers assembled a disco ball--with hundreds of small reflective devices to hang above the dance floor. The mirrors are leftover projection-television chips from Intel's planned effort to enter the digital television market--an effort the company recently abandoned only 10 months after a splashy introduction at the Consumer Electronics Show last January.

The TV effort became yet another in a series of embarrassing stumbles for Intel. The company haspublicly canceled a succession of high-profile projects, has replaced managers in money-losing ventures and has fallen behind its keen competitor Advanced Micro Devices in introducing technologies, like a feature that wards off viruses and worms, in markets that Intel has long dominated. read more

Nov 29, 2004, 05:23 AM	#1
Dexsal Space Monocerotis Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aust Posts: 1,401 Rep Power: 0	The disco ball of Intel's failed hopes One sign that Intel is having trouble dancing to technology's current beat may be the world's most expensive disco ball. For a company holiday party next month, a handful of engineers assembled a disco ball--with hundreds of small reflective devices to hang above the dance floor. The mirrors are leftover projection-television chips from Intel's planned effort to enter the digital television market--an effort the company recently abandoned only 10 months after a splashy introduction at the Consumer Electronics Show last January. The TV effort became yet another in a series of embarrassing stumbles for Intel. The company haspublicly canceled a succession of high-profile projects, has replaced managers in money-losing ventures and has fallen behind its keen competitor Advanced Micro Devices in introducing technologies, like a feature that wards off viruses and worms, in markets that Intel has long dominated. read more Last edited by Dexsal; Nov 29, 2004 at 05:30 AM.