http://pulse2.com/2008/12/12/andy-grove-suggests-intel-to-build-batteries-for-electric-vehicles/ Fri, 25 May 2012 12:58:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://pulse2.com/2008/12/12/andy-grove-suggests-intel-to-build-batteries-for-electric-vehicles/#comment-20277 Tom Witkin Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:27:59 +0000 http://pulse2.com/?p=7226#comment-20277 It’s not clear that science and technology analogous to what drives Moore’s law could enable the same success in the chemistry and manufacturing of car batteries. And, the business process behind getting semiconductors designed into a car, then producing and delivering them, strikes me as quite different from what it takes to establish the relationship between a car company and a firm making batteries that provide the fundamental umph behind the vehicles. It’s not clear that science and technology analogous to what drives Moore’s law could enable the same success in the chemistry and manufacturing of car batteries. And, the business process behind getting semiconductors designed into a car, then producing and delivering them, strikes me as quite different from what it takes to establish the relationship between a car company and a firm making batteries that provide the fundamental umph behind the vehicles.

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