You have learned from your training manual that strategic alliances are voluntar

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You have learned from your training manual that strategic alliances are voluntary arrangements between firms that involve the sharing of knowledge, resources, and capabilities with the intent of developing processes, products, or services. Based on what you have learned so far about HP from their 2014 10-K report, with which one of the following companies has HP entered into a strategic alliance?

i picked this answer for the question that is related to the question I needed help in (Intel Corporation)

As noted in the cover letter from the CAO for this module, and your training materials in Chapter 9, there are common reasons why firms enter alliances. They do so to strengthen competitive position, enter new markets, hedge against uncertainty, access critical complementary assets, and to learn new capabilities. (answer is above) Refer to your answer to the question about with which firm HP should enter a strategic alliance, and explain why HP may have chosen to do so with this particular firm.

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Explanation / Answer

Companies enter strategic alliances for :-

•Strengthen competitive position

•Enter new markets

•Hedge against uncertainty

•Access critical complementary assets

•Learn new capabilities

Intel Corporation today announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with Rockchip to expand the breadth of and accelerate the rate at which it brings its Intel® architecture and communications-based solutions to market for a range of entry-level Android* tablets worldwide.

The alliance will focus on technology integrations and joint market education efforts.

Google and Intel have been working closely for many years to engineer and validate processor technology within the data center. With this new alliance, we'll explore technology solutions for our enterprise customers in the areas of Kubernetes, machine learning, IoT and security, combining Google Cloud software capabilities with Intel’s advanced hardware. The alliance will focus on:

Kubernetes - Optimizing Kubernetes for Intel architecture to support a broad range of workloads. Intel is a major contributor to the Kubernetes ecosystem and enables enterprises to run OpenStack as a managed Kubernetes workload. Intel and Google engineers have already delivered code optimizations that have improved feature transparency on Intel architecture. This work is also expected to improve workload capabilities, including virtual network performance and prioritization of shared resources.

Machine Learning - Accelerating TensorFlow performance on Intel processors, for example by allowing TensorFlow to leverage all CPU cores and vector lanes for improved parallelism, integrating high-performance libraries such as the Math Kernel library (MKL) into TensorFlow, and optimizing memory allocation and data layer operations across a range of topologies.

IoT - Creating a secure platform for connecting Intel’s IoT edge devices to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), where the data can be analyzed to inform better decisions — a critical capability for industries like retail and manufacturing.

Security - Enhancing security integrations between Intel hardware and GCP infrastructure that will further improve security for enterprise customers.

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