5 products Intel could cut in its reshuffle

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^{Intel's Itanium, Wi-Di, maker boards, and other products could be on the chopping block}

1. Itanium chips

The once-powerful Itanium server.

Chip is likely on its way out sooner than expected. Its user base is dwindling, and Intel has been openly wooing customers to move over to its x86 Xeon chips. A [CENSORED]ure Itanium chip code-named Kittson is expected in the coming years, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise—one of Intel’s few Itanium clients—has said it will keep Itanium servers on its roadmap until 2025.

2. Education tablets and PCs

Intel formed an education group in the 2000s with the aim to compete with upstart One Laptop Per Child, which took the world by storm with its low-cost XO laptop. The group was peddling alternative low-cost netbook reference designs to small PC.

3. Maker boards

Intel is good at making drones, robots and other cool stuff inside its labs, but the company has failed to engage the do-it-yourself maker community at large. CEO Brian Krzanich perceives himself as a maker and enthusiast, but his vision hasn’t translated to the maker community, which makes cool products using boards like Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone instead of Intel’s Edison or Galileo. (Intel's Krzanich co-hosts a TV show called America's Greatest Makers that at least tries to engage the maker community, however.)

4. Wi-Di

Intel provides its own wireless display technology called Wi-Di to connect laptops directly to large screens. It didn’t work out in living rooms, so the company is targeting the technology at meeting rooms. But similar technologies.

5. Atom chips for servers

Intel hasn’t updated its Atom chip for servers since 2013. Atom chips aren’t being updated anymore for smartphones and tablets, and they could be discontinued for servers as well. The chips were originally intended for microservers, where the low-end Xeon E3  and Xeon-D series of chips are taking over as more powerful alternatives.