• Codex
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    432 days ago

    Is it just me, or is it worrying how companies keep packing up and selling off the only parts of their businesses that actually, you know, make stuff, in favor of becoming full time bullshit peddlers?

    • @ichbinjasokreativ
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      31 day ago

      They hope to incentivise customers to use intel foundries by splitting them off. Intel compete with AMD and nvidia in many segments, so neither of these companies would want to manufacture their products at intel. But turning their foundries into a separate company could maybe change that (probably not). Their foundries also bleed money like crazy, separating them could stabilize share prices for the ‘main’ intel brand.

    • paraphrand
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      92 days ago

      Something something “we are more agile this way…”

    • @iopq
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      22 days ago

      AMD would have gone broke if it didn’t