Submitted 3 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.vox.com/technology/364745/intel-nvidia-ai-silicon-valley-layoffs-stock-semiconductor
Probably bureaucracy. Also an inability to pivot even when things make no sense. Everything is a giant freight train that has very little ability to change direction or stop.
Oh and of course a healthy taste of not being transparent or honest.
Source: I used to work there years ago.
Large amounts of greed, corruption, and complacency.
Bean counting?
This is the handiwork of highly paid executives.
Greed?
Intel was once a Silicon Valley leader.
Well, any specific stuff that Intel has done recently aside, Silicon Valley has been more about software, not hardware, for quite some years.
Intel is a hardware company.
hardware and software have taken turns in long waves for 50 years. like for self driving cars right now, the hardware is ready but tue software is catching up. intel hasn’t led the bitcoin/ai waves, and microsoft is no longer married to intel, and gaming and mobile phones aren’t intel either. they are late to RISC/ARM, etc. they are too big to survive on niche and they are missing lots of major waves.
Capitalism
Poor practices. They focused on shorr term gains over quality.
Their solution? Lay off a bunch of people to reduce costs and increase profitability immediately.
Comfort zone and believed in Microsoft’s talk that the market of the future would be desktops, but Apple came and said: Not today
Apple killed Blackberry and Intel
Nice typo in their propaganda. Couldn’t quite figure out contractions versus ownership.
apple also killed productivity *lol but that has nothing to do with blackburied or … *who the f is intel?
server: arm handy: arm desktop: amd laptop: amd
and happy with it, left intel 20years ago for at that time already obvious reasons why other companies products are better.
work notebook: impediment with a bitten fruit logo on it. i am very unhappy with its lack of stability/deterministic behaviour on even veery low basic things, and guess what, it also has an intel cpu… yeah (f**k), i unwillingly try to use that intel crap for work.
apple might have killed intel, but got infested with releasing crappy products on that path. what a gain!!! 🤦♀️
i’ld rather let a zombie go on walking than getting zombiefied while trying to stop it… but tbh its “only work” that is slowed down by the fruitlogozombie (well, am i zombiefied already?) at least that “bitten” part of its logo from now on makes fully sense to me 😁 😂
Going through a period of little competition in a space seems to do that to just about every company in that position.
A lack of competition.
Anything they go after today is 18-24 months out. Chasing after AI would be pretty risky. Desktops and laptops are moving to ARM and RISC-V. Their best bet is to go after whatever enterprise data centers will need a couple of years from now.
If I were laying bets, it would be to go after power and heat efficiency. Like, hard. Take their time out in the wilderness, then come back with chips that save the planet from climate collapse.
Their ISA is not their only strong side, so they can reuse a lot of designs and expertise for making ARM and\or RISC-V ISA CPUs.
But they will have to do catching up in, ahem, making things that last more than 2 months again.
Can’t remember the full details of the deal, but I seem to recall a story about how Apple approached Intel to manufacture a low-powered processor for mobile (for the first iPhone) at the time. Intel didn’t see money in mobile processors and passed on the deal. Additionally, for years, Apple asked for more powerful chips for the MacBooks. At the time, the iPads were surpassing MacBooks in speed on some tasks. Finally, Apple decided since they were already designing their own silicon for iPhones and iPads that they might as well just do the same for the MacBooks as well since Intel couldn’t keep up.
Again, this is largely from memory. I can’t remember the source, so take it with a grain of salt.
G.P.U.
I think they’ll recover. Letting them fail would be a national security issue.
if you keep look at the mirror you crash at the end.
Mobile strategy, I.E. lack thereof.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The marketing and advertising and sales teams took over management from the engineering team, and decided to cut all the corners. It’s a classic tale at this point, same thing happened to Boeing and Apple and Google and etc. It’s why everything sucks nowadays.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There might be things that Apple is stagnating on, but silicon and ARM CPU transitions definitely ain’t one of those things. The rest of the industry is scrambling to catch up with them asap.
db2@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just ask Apple, they’ll tell you so.
mephiska@lemmy.world 3 months ago
These new snapdragon based windows laptops have to be a serious wake up call for intel. General personal computing is quickly moving away from x86 and the latest “efficiency” core processors from intel can’t compete.
uis@lemm.ee 3 months ago
And? Linux was on ARM since about beginning.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Better them than accountants and lawyers.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I was including the accountants and lawyers in that list, just to be clear. They’re all bad if they don’t have any idea how the technical side of their business functions.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you’re talking about the lastest gen desktop CPUs, they just clocked them too high.
This has been an ongoing problem… and yes, probably has to do with management and marketing decisions tbh, so they can be 2% ahead of AMD in some stupid benchmark. AMD is guilty of this too, and you can see what “sanely” clocked chips look like with their X3D series.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That is absolutely not the only issue. They had oxidation issues in two successive generations of consumer CPUs, likely knew about it, and sold them anyways. They’re trying to get out of reimbursing, replacing, or compensating anyone for the fucked cores, and as a direct result, a massive class-action suit is starting to roll.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My point was that had proper engineers been in charge instead, they would have noticed and listened to the people on the ground that I am certain knew about the problem, and it would have been fixed before any consumers got their hands on the product.