Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

Posted Oct 4, 2013 7:45 UTC (Fri) by geertj (guest, #4116)
Parent article: Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

It it just me, or does it seem that every time someone creates a new and interesting computer not based on the Intel architecture, Intel launch an inferior alternative that has less performance or uses more power, costs more, and then use their marketing prowess to try and make it stick?

OLPC -> Classmate
Raspberry Pi -> Minnowboard
Arduino -> Galileo

Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

Posted Oct 4, 2013 10:37 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link]

It's not just you.

Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

Posted Oct 4, 2013 10:44 UTC (Fri) by ledow (guest, #11753) [Link] (1 responses)

The problem is, I've never heard anything more of those on the right-hand-side. Intel just don't know how to compete in that area, so they have to trail by which time people don't touch them.

It's a shame - a Pentium-on-a-chip would have sold millions some years ago. Now it's just a waste of power. I still have a NetPortExpress based on a Intel 386SL chip, they obviously knew how to do this stuff at one point, but it's just a question of power, heat and size which Intel haven't been very good at for a long time.

Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

Posted Oct 4, 2013 16:34 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

it's just a question of power, heat and size which Intel haven't been very good at for a long time.

It was not “heat and size” per se. Intel manufactured Intel 80376 for many years, after all. But it refused to license cores and it refused to make a proprietary SOC designs on it's own fabs which made them useless in a time when everyone started switching to custom SOCs with CPU just one small part of the whole chip.

Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

Posted Oct 4, 2013 10:55 UTC (Fri) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

On the other hand, it has real mode and vm86!

Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

Posted Oct 4, 2013 12:18 UTC (Fri) by gnb (subscriber, #5132) [Link] (1 responses)

Seems a perfectly reasonable strategy. The devices you list as their targets are all cheap. Producing an equal or superior alternative at a similar price would risk cannibalising some sales of higher-end Intel processors. This way, they hopefully muddy the waters and reduce sales of the competing device without diverting too many people to the bottom end of their product range.

Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

Posted Oct 4, 2013 12:24 UTC (Fri) by stumbles (guest, #8796) [Link]

Aye, its called pissing in their (the competitions) Wheaties.