How deep can Intel get inside the smart grid?
I think a lot about which companies that I’ve been covering for zillions of years will be around 10 years from now, as the Internet moves into its next phase of innovation around things like machine to machine communications, which is sort of personified in the smart grid. If you think Microsoft and IBM and Hewlett-Packard are invincible, pause a moment to memorialize Digital Equipment Corp.
Clearly, many of the legacy IT companies — IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, to name a few — are all over the whole intelligent utility market like a bad suit. But what about that other kingpin of the personal computing movement, Intel, the company of the famous “Inside” motto. Clearly, the company hopes to be deep inside the smart grid.
