NATO reports difficulties in hitting Gaddafi forces
NATO said on Thursday that the alliance was making progress in Libya, but still has trouble hitting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's troops. "The difficulties are there, but we are systematically degrading Gaddafi forces," Italian Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, president of NATO's Military Committee, said during a press conference at NATO headquarters. Di Paola said that NATO had difficulties in bombing Gaddafi's forces, which are still playing their tactics of "shoot and scoot" after withdrawing to the outskirts of Misrata, a rebel-held city near Tripoli. The general refused to predict how long the NATO mission in Libya would last. "What I can say, 2011 air max 28 nations of the alliance have said they will continue until preconditions for Gaddafi are met. So, it is up to Gaddafi to decide when it is to stop or not," he said. "Much like it has been near impossible to displace either Intel or Microsoft in the PC space, it is likely to be equally hard to displace ARM in these new device classes, because ARM is entrenched and the ecosystem around it is becoming more robust by the day," Enderle said. He said Intel desperately needs some very large design wins to get moving in the tablet and smartphone markets. And this 3D chip announcement is a strong place to start. "Intel has virtually nothing compelling in either the tablet or smartphone space in terms of a shipping product," he added. "[The new technology] is core, no pun intended. This is generally how they advance. But Intel needs to address technology and marketing requirements and, so far, they are only effective on technology."