“This is a business decision where we’re taking those resources and applying them to corporate priorities,” she said. The company decided that engineers at its Digital Home Group should focus more on tablets, smartphones and a new category of laptops, which Intel is calling Ultrabooks, she said.
By walking away from TVs, Intel is exiting part of a market that Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini targeted as he sought to lessen the company’s reliance on personal computers. Intel has won set-top box orders from Comcast Corp. (CMCSA), the largest U.S. cable company, and some European television service providers, and has supplied chips for Google Inc.’s Google TV devices made by Sony Corp. and Logitech International SA.
No more Intel Inside your TV
Posted on Thursday, October 13 2011 @ 22:22 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck