Brady Brim-DeForest – Tiny Thoughts - Intel famously killed its [memory] business

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Intel famously killed its [memory] business—shut it off and focused on its much smaller business, microprocessors, because that was going to be the market of the future. And the minute Intel got out of playing defense and into playing offense, its future was secure.

— Marc Andreessen