In response, a vengeful Intel, which has plenty of money and has never lacked for smarts, has begun flooding the world with new, smaller, lighter forms of silicon, and forming new alliances with a motley gang of startups and fringe players. Intel was never a consumer company – it makes and sells electronic components. Intel used to make and sell Microsoft’s bulldozers, but now Intel is scattering unheard-of forms of disruptive silicon, right, left and centre. Intel courts academics, inventors, artists, the Maker contingent. Intel is arming the rabble. Then there’s General Electric. This
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