Left Out of the iPad Party, Intel Bad-Mouths Tablet PCs

Intel's execs have just been bad-mouthing tablet PCs and voice-control on cellphones--neither is particularly promising tech, say the boys from the big chip-maker. What's their motivation for saying this? Sour grapes it would seem.

The head of Intel's architecture group, David Perlmutter, speaking at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing this week, is responsible for the gloomy words about tablet PCs. The thrust of his argument is that "these new categories are hard to predict" and that when...