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Friday, December 12, 2008

Andy Grove urges Intel to produce car batteries

Diversify! urges the paranoid one
By Emma Hughes Friday, 12 December 2008

FORMER CHAIRMAN of Intel, Andy Grove is pushing the company to move in an unexpected direction and make batteries for plug-in electric cars, reports the Wall Street Journal. Grove, who still advises the company, is apparently urging chief executive Paul Otellini in the direction of car batteries as he believes Intel should be filling this niche in the market and grasping the chance to diversify the business. As the production of plug-in electric cars increases there is definitely room for companies such as Intel to step-up and move in on this growing market. Grove has said that Intel’s vast fortune means that it could help this market as well as helping itself, as it could improve the performance of electric car batteries, and even cut the cost of selling as well as producing them.

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