Comment on Intel’s Troubles Complicate U.S. Chip Independence
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Injection of money more often than not does not solve the fundamental problems that lead a business to failure or in this case poor performance. The causes of the poor decisions along the way must also be addressed.
VubDapple@lemmy.world 2 months ago
An engineer should be at the helm. MBAs fuck tech companies up.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s CEO, is an engineer. He was the lead architect of the 80486 processor. If there’s one thing Intel can’t be accused of, it’s having a CEO who doesn’t understand engineering. But he’s picking up the pieces from years of complacent MBA types before him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Gelsinger
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Intel’s current CEO is Pat Gelsinger, he’s an engineer who was the chief architect of the i486.
It’s not just who’s at the top, the issue is that the company has gotten too big. There’s a reason why AMD with such a lower staff count has managed to leapfrog Intel.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I suspect Intel has a broader product range than AMD to justify the headcount, but I’m not sure where the extra resources should go.
Their networking chipsets were gold-standard in the 100M and Gigabit era, but their 2.5G stuff is spotty to the point Realtek is considered legit.
They’ve pulled back from flash, SSDs and Optane.
There must be some other rich product lines that they do and AMD doesn’t
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AMD doesn’t have fabs, and contracts that work out to TSMC. Intel has fabs worldwide. That alone makes Intel a much more capital-intensive, labor-intensive business.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jim Keller was a pretty big reason.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Intel had Jim Keller, and then Jim Keller left prematurely because of political infighting within Intel.
He could barely get anything done and was blocked all the time, because people thought his longer term goal was to become Intel’s next CEO.
His Royal Core project, which looks promising, has been cancelled by Pat Gelsinger.
Intel had a goose that laid golden eggs, killed it, then threw all the eggs they had into a volcano.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 months ago
AMD just makes the designs and farms out manufacturing. Intel has to make the designs and manufacture the chips themselves.