Maybe Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has spent too much time at EMC and VMware. Because now Intel wants to spin out the FPGA business that is a small but bright spot in its datacenter and edge computing businesses.
It never made a lot of sense that EMC, the maker of traditional storage arrays and the poster child for datacenter-class storage during the Dot Com boom, snapped up VMware in December 2003 for $635 million in cash just after that boom had gone bust. EMC was…