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Intel now pushes its own X86 processors for smartphones and tablets, but it has yet to secure any design wins that ship in high volumes. That decision might have appeared smart at the time - Intel was believed to be losing money in the cellphone market - but in hindsight, it has proved to be one of the company's biggest mistakes.

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With concerns mounting about competition in its core PC chip business, Intel decided to dump the cellphone chip operations to Marvell Semiconductor in 2006 for $600 million.

Over the next four years, Intel spent more than $11 billion acquiring three dozen cell phone and communications chip companies, but it couldn't make inroads against rivals such as Qualcomm. Intel renamed the business XScale and courted customers such as BlackBerry, Palm, and Motorola. Intel had a chance to get into the chip business earlier, and actually gained the rights to use ARM's designs in 1998 and acquired chipmaker DSP Communications. Virtually every mobile device runs on chips based on a design by rival ARM Holdings, created by companies such as Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics, with Intel left to compete for scraps. Motorola Mobility Mobile phonesĪn increasingly glaring Intel misstep is in smartphones. The Motorola Droid Razr i, unveiled in late 2012, was one of the first smartphones to include an Intel processor.

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Logitech even called its Google TV box ' a mistake of implementation of a gigantic nature.' However, such products - and Google TV in general - flopped. Intel then became an early partner for Google TVs and other smart TVs, with its processors powering a Sony TV and a Logitech Google TV set-top box. In 2007, the company decided to scale back the Viiv brand, and it disappeared soon after. And follow-up products didn't live up to the technology's promise, either.

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If a PC carried the Viiv brand, it was supposed to serve as the hub for a digital media universe, sending content to televisions around the home.īut the first PCs to arrive with the Viiv brand were only incremental updates to existing Windows Media Center PCs.

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In 2005, Intel unveiled its Viiv technology to allow videos and music to seamlessly move between a PC and a TV or portable device. Intel Media, while the latest push, wasn't the first. Intel's history in the TV industry has been rocky. Intel provided the chip for one of the first Google TV products, Logitech's Revue set-top box. And it tried numerous other consumer businesses, ranging from toys to digital cameras. It was working on cloud computing at a time when Amazon only sold books and CDs. The company dipped its toes into tablets and smartphones years before Apple's popular devices hit the market.

In 1998, the company launched an ambitious program to create new businesses that would bring in revenue beyond its PC chips. In some areas, Intel is willing to gamble, like spending billions of dollars on new chip factories without really being able to accurately predict demand, or creating chips for devices that hadn't yet been designed.īut Intel has been much more hesitant to take risks outside of its core processor business over the years. Add to that uncertainty a new CEO, Brian Krzanich, who didn't want to shoulder all of that risk on his own. And there was no sign Intel Media would make money anytime soon. What changed so quickly? Signing deals with content companies turned out to be much harder - and pricier - than expected. Intel delves deeper into consumer electronics.Intel CEO looks back at biggest blown call: Missing out on the iPhone.

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