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Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their datacenter building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. And if you slow down AI, that will slow down the datacenters.
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And they have to be, argues Patrick Morehead, president of Moor Insights & Strategies. What Intel has to do is execute on the strategy that it has set out on for the last three years, and thats to get competitive in foundry and get more competitive in products. Intel needs a clear strategy because right now it doesnt have one.
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