Intel ex-CEO looks back at biggest blown call: Missing out on the iPhone

Paul Otellini retired as Intel’s CEO on Thursday.

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Paul Otellini passed up one of the biggest opportunities in Intel’s history — supplying chips for the first iPhone, the chipmaker’s former CEO said. Otellini “decided against doing what it took” to make the chips for Apple’s smartphone, The Atlantic reported, based on an interview with the newly retired executive. Here’s what he told the publication:We ended up not winning it or passing on it, depending on how you want to view it. And the world would have been a lot different if we’d done it. The thing you…

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