That comes less than a month after Intel Capital’s Arvind Sodhani told us he was excited, rather than worried, to have sunk so much of Intel’s portfolio into Clearwire. Of course, it must have been obvious even then that the investment would end the year as a big loss. (Fellow Clearwire investor Time Warner faces a similar loss.) While the Clearwire effort, which Intel hopes will boost sales of its chips, is off to a bad start, it’s too early to give up on it. After all, the deal was only approved in November, and Clearwire just announced super-cheap mobile wireless plans in Portland.
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