And the manipulation of the Web's function in recent years — from informational resource to a repository of personal data that dragnet government surveillance programs can (and do) dip into at will, and from which corporates can (and do) build mountains of interconnected intel on their users, has steered Berners-Lee's original collaborative vision in a much darker and dystopian direction.
The playing field will likely be leveled or even tipped in favor of Intel with their capability to bring the first fully integrated end-to-end cognitive cloud computing solution, which is what the industry considers the gold standard in transforming the car to the next big computing platform in our connected living ecosystem.
Intel have released details of their new Haswell CPUs - the latest generation of their Core range – emphasing the chip's low power consumption, rather than its more minimal increases in processing power.
"We have been gathering intel about ISIS, a lot of their Twitter accounts and their websites," one Anonymous member told VICE News via a chat on the collective's AnonOps website.
According to the Financial Times, the acquisition by Intel of such a dissimilar business puzzled many security industry executives.
Why would the Rebel Alliance wipe the valuable intel of both R2-D2 and C-3PO in Revenge of the Sith?
Regulators have previously accused Intel of selling chips below average cost to strategic server customers, like governments and universities, when bidding against A.M.D.-based products.
The European Commission accused Intel of offering computer makers better deals if they would agree to sell products that relied solely on Intel's processors or delay products that used chips made by Intel's rival, Advanced Micro Devices.
Then, in 2008, it accused Intel of giving rebates to a big retailer to secure exclusivity.
AMD accused Intel of anti-competitive practices, which sparked an antitrust investigation.
On Tuesday, AMD accused Intel of forcing customers, including large-scale computer makers, into exclusive deals to keep them from buying AMD x86 microprocessors.
