A good time for him to leave before the downwards trend of Intel becomes more obvious, and people start blaming it on him. I hope he leaves the board of Google, too, because I don't like how he has influenced some of Google's decisions in the past few years, to use Intel chips instead of ARM in their new devices, and every single one of them turned out to be the wrong decision.
Which "new devices" are you referring to? As far as I know the Nexus One and Nexus 4 use Qualcomm CPUs, and the Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, and Nexus 10 all use ARM CPUs.
Edit: Thanks to those who pointed out that I'd forgotten the Chromebooks and Google TV. Given the limited extent to which Google have marketed these devices, I'm not sure whether they can be said to have failed yet. And even if they have failed, it is not clear that this was due to using Intel components.
But those were successful devices. He's talking about Google devices that failed, in part because they used Intel CPU's. Devices like the original Google TV.
All the unsuccessful Chromebooks and the Revue Google TV. Both of those have only recently started to pick-up when they started using ARM chips. And now Google is repeating the mistake by starting to put Intel chips in its Motorola devices.
This is also a very bad strategic mistake because if Intel succeeds in mobile, and becomes popular, who do you think it will help most? Google? No way. That situation would help Microsoft, because they can start using the x86 chips that got popular on Android to promote their x86 tablets and hybrids, where Microsoft has a real strength because of legacy apps.
So Google is now pushing Intel chips into the market, and gaining who knows what, because I don't see any benefit for them, but definitely helping Microsoft in the long term. If Intel survives, Microsoft survives. You'd think Google would realize that and doesn't want that.
Google has absolutely no need for Intel in the future, even for their data centers. Microsoft's future pretty much depends on Intel and x86 chips. I don't understand why Google isn't taking full advantage of this weakness of their competitor, and instead it's trying to put Intel back in the game.
The ARM Chromebook costs less than x86 Chromebooks while offering more-or-less the same user experience and it's much more popular in sales, according to Amazon.
So, Intel is/was a part of the problem at least for Chromebooks. (I don't know anything about Google TV)
This is the most biased and unscientific statement. Where the hell is the downvote button? How does using Intel chips make Google products unsuccessful? Apple has been using Intel chips for several years (although they want to move to ARM soon), and Apple products are/were very successful. The scientific explaination to the failure of ChroomBook is a revolutionary idea. People want to access their data even on the train.What makes you think a cloud-based OS will win? Duh. Wifi sucks. Home Internet sucks too. TV? Apple TV sucks too, why would Google TV be any different? Netflix works with TV vendors and embedded webapp into TV. That's included in the TV price. More useful than an extra box.
