De laatste tijd wil het op hardware gebied niet echt meer lukken bij Intel. Een of andere jopie daaro heeft nu bedacht dat Intel in de data service business (webhosting, data mining e.d.) moet gaan:
Intel today detailed how it hopes to become as dominant a service provider to Internet start-ups and old guard industrial giants as it is chip supplier to the world's PC makers.Intel unwrapped the first "nerve center" of a new data hosting operation that is the cornerstone of an ambitious plan to expand into a market that, at first glance, appears to be light-years away from the business of making chips.
E-commerce companies and traditional merchants moving online are examining ways to get up and running quickly by outsourcing Web site design, transaction hosting, and data warehousing functions. Intel wants to tap into this trend by getting into the business of running a data factory, of sorts, where all kinds of electronic information is processed.
[...] The extent of Intel's ambitions can be seen in the plans for the buildings themselves. Housed inside a nondescript building near Intel's Santa Clara, California-based headquarters, the 85,000 square feet of space in the first center will someday be occupied by as many as 10,000 servers that will be the virtual home, Intel hopes, of a wide range of the company's Web efforts.
The new $150 million data center is the first of more than 12 centers planned worldwide, including an operation in Virginia slated to open in the first quarter of 2000 and centers in London and Tokyo by mid-year. A facility in Folsom, California, is already operational, and will serve as the testing ground for all other centers. All told, Intel expects to spend $1 billion when the buildings are outfitted to their capacity.
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