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Google Chrome's latest vapor victim is Intel
July 10, 2009 |
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Google Chrome's disruptive potential is being felt across the high-tech industry and the latest company that analysts feel could be threatened by the proposed Chrome operating system is microprocessor powerhouse Intel. That could be a long way off, but at least now Microsoft can welcome its old Wintel comrade-in-arms to the ranks of hypothetical Google victims.Intel executives on Thursday were fielding Google Chrome questions as far afield as Taipei, Taiwan, where a director of the chip giant's Ultra Mobility Group batted back the notion that Chrome would threaten Intel's own early-stage OS for smartphones, mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and netbooks, the Linux-based Moblin."Our long-term goal is providing hardware for devices with different operating systems ... more competition will drive up more innovations and that's good for consumers," Intel's Michael Chen told Dow Jones in Taipei to kick off a busy day of Google Chrome talk for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker.Closer to home, analysts seemed more interested in how Mountain View, Calif.-based Google might bite into Intel's core hardware business rather than the possibility that Chrome could nip a nascent software offering in the bud.James Mitchell of Goldman Sachs got the ball rolling with the contention that Google Chrome could boost the fortunes of ARM manufacturers at the expense of x86 chip makers like Intel, reasoning that all ARM platforms lack is a compatible set of applications to rival Microsoft's Office suite:
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