[metagame]

They've tried a lot of "reimagining." It never works. No one wants Intel on mobile, despite Intel's mobile chips being absolutely great when they were actually releasing them, and no one wants a genuinely high-performance chip if it means they have to make alterations to how their software is written.

I have a lot of criticisms of Intel, but held back from reimagining isn't quite a great one.

[imwillofficial]

Their low power stuff was garbage. And itanium went unsupported and was half baked.

Intel knew where their money makers were, x86 servers. Their attention and investment showed a lack of foresight, combined with their famous bloated engineering teams, is a story as old as time itself.

[genmud]

When has intel reimagined products that have low power and low price? Intel has been notorious for having power hungry and overpriced stuff.

[wmf]

Didn't Pouslbo and friends have negative prices ("contra-revenue") yet still nobody wanted them?

[nuerow]

For those who, like me, never heard of Poulsbo, it's a chipset for Intel's first generation of Atom processors.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/chipsets/poulsbo

[baybal2]

Poulsbo was disastrously bad, quirky, and impractical.

It took all x86 platform warts, and replaced it with even harder to get right "Poulsbo warts" like SFI, and etc.

[FreezingKeeper]

And to think they had it in their hands in 1997 with StrongARM