"Where would the world be without what Intel has built?"

Paul Otellini, interviewed by BBC, takes credit for what Intel has delivered the world and his role in it in his 34 years at the company.

I am glad he is taking credit. As I have written here, here, here may more of our industry be like Intel. It relentlessly eats its own children when most vendors milk older products. It has delivered gravity defying Moore's Law productivity when many tech vendors use success to expect premiums and lock-in. It invests billions in R&D when most of the industry grudgingly invests. When others are benchmarked against Intel, they have excuses - "you cannot deliver similar productivity in our (software, services, telecom - pick any) sector." Ok, how about even a fraction of that productivity?

Substitute any of our other larger tech vendors in place of Intel. Now imagine where the world would be. A lot poorer, I suggest.