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Left Behind In The Mobile Revolution, Intel Struggles To Innovate

Left Behind In The Mobile Revolution, Intel Struggles To Innovate Enlarge this image toggle caption Laura Rauch/AP Laura Rauch/AP Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Walter Isaacson, author of The Innovators, about Intel's struggles amid the waning popularity of PCs and what may be next for the Silicon Valley titan. And just as Microsoft kind of missed the mobile revolution, certainly Intel did, and they never really made the exact right chips for mobile devices and phones. I think what's interesting about Intel is not simply that it's in a bad position for having hitched itself to the personal computer, but that it's trying really hard to reinvent itself and to be part of the Internet of things, of cloud computing, and to create the new type of devices such as field-programmable chips and maybe new types of memory chips that'll be important for both the Internet of things and cloud computing.

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