Anand Chandrasekher to Leave Intel; Mike Bell, Dave Whalen to Lead Ultra Mobility

[btarunr]

Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Ultra Mobility Group (UMG), announced today that he will be leaving Intel to pursue other interests. Effective immediately, Mike Bell vice president of IAG and Dave Whalen vice president of IAG, will co-manage UMG. "Intel remains committed to this business," said David Perlmutter, executive vice president and Intel Architecture Group general manager.

"We continue to make the investments needed to ensure that the best user experience on smartphones and handhelds runs on Intel Architecture, and to ship a phone this year. "We'd like to take this opportunity to thank Anand for numerous contributions to Intel over his 24-year career here, and wish him well in his future endeavors."



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[simlariver]

He is leaving because he knows that Atom for smartphones will fail. Intel would have to cut down power consumption of their Atom cpu 10fold for it to be competitive. And then it would only compete with last years ARM-based offerings. There is just no way Intel will have any success on the ultra mobile market in the next 3 years.

 

[btarunr]

There is just no way Intel will have any success on the ultra mobile market in the next 3 years.

What's going to happen after 3 years?

 

[mdm-adph]

He is leaving because he knows that Atom for smartphones will fail. Intel would have to cut down power consumption of their Atom cpu 10fold for it to be competitive. And then it would only compete with last years ARM-based offerings. There is just no way Intel will have any success on the ultra mobile market in the next 3 years.

Looks like he reached his Chandrasekher limit! HA GET IT

 

[simlariver]

What's going to happen after 3 years?

They will keep their sub-par product offering alive to capitalize on brand awareness like Microsoft is doing right now with Windows Mobile 7.

x86 is 10 years behind on the mobile market right now, if they release an Atom phone this year, success will depend on applications porting, assuming they have competitive hardware. which is highly doubtful considering what we know about future ARM offerings from Nvidia, Samsung, Qualcom and Texas instrument.