When Intel CEO Paul Otellini, received a call from Nokia head Stephen Elop on Nokia moves to Microsoft, he used a word that Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz "is often used."
Reference of Otellini reputation Bartz to blaspheme elicited a hearty laugh from audiences who have gathered to listen to him and others in a discussion panel at the Mobile World Congress on Wednesday. The other panelists were Bartz, Cisco CEO John Chambers and CEO Masayoshi Son Softbank.
Nokia said last week that it will drop and your operating system of Symbian and Meego OS based on Linux is started at Intel with a year ago. Instead, it is said, will build Smartphone using Microsoft Windows phone OS.
Otellini, asked her reaction to the announcement of Elop said: "I understand why they did it. I guess if I was in his position would have done the same or a similar call. "
The move follows a long-term trend in the industry of PC, Otellini said. "You're seeing the last manufacturer fully integrated phone become more horizontal, exactly what we saw in the PC model where people focus on what is good for: chip or software or deployment," he said.
But the net result of move by Nokia will be more innovation, competition and players over time, Otellini said.
Still, the defection of Nokia is great for Intel in the short term. The chip maker has tried to move into the growing market for Tablet PCs and Smartphones, are both dominated by processors designed by arm. Intel said Monday that his chip low-end smartphone, called Medfield, is in production and will ship later this year.
The production of chips is one thing: get the phone manufacturers to use them, another. Otellini confirmed that Intel will processors in smartphones later this year, marking the first entry of the chip maker in a growing market which has been significantly absent. He refused to say who will use the chip, but said, "I think that is going to be pretty exciting."
Otellini said that plans also make an announcement soon about moving production of chips at 22 nanometer fabrication process. That will allow Intel to make faster and more energy-efficient chip as it seems to push its processor Atom in the markets of Tablet PCs and Smartphones.
Such a move will be important to your business: sales of smartphones exceeded shipments of PC and the Tablet PC "has come out of nowhere and he commanded the attention of the industry," Otellini said.
Notebook computers continue to be the main driver, though, with growth of 25 percent last year and expectations of growth of 20 percent this year. PC sales grew 17 percent, with more than one million units sold per day for the first time ever, he said.
"I don't see any development environment any time soon where a machine meets all needs," Otellini said. "But I think at least for the next four or five years, there are likely to see more devices, more form factors simply because people want to do different things with computers.
"And in this world, not win a single device," said Otellini.
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