Biography | Paul Otellini — The Moscone Stage Where Apple Moved to Intel

People remember the Apple-Intel shift as a Cupertino decision announced on a keynote slide.

The public act happened on a Moscone stage in San Francisco, nineteen days after Otellini became chief executive.

On 6 June 2005, at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs told more than 3,800 developers that Macintosh computers would begin using Intel microprocessors the following year.

The rest of the line would move by the end of 2007.

Apple's own newsroom release is dated from WWDC 2005, San Francisco.

Otellini walked on stage. The Chronicle described a public embrace.

The partnership had been negotiated offstage. The pin is the hall where it was made irreversible in public.

The photograph most often reused of the two men together was taken two years later, on 11 June 2007, when Jobs handed Otellini a custom award at the same complex.

The 2005 handshake lives mainly in wire photos. This later frame is the rights-clear picture of the same two people on the same convention campus.

Moscone West had opened in 2003 across Fourth Street. WWDC used the complex through 2016.

Photo: Ben Stanfield, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons