• @Shadywack
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    572 days ago

    Losing 16 billion dollars totally has nothing to do with this at all. Its time for Pat to pursue some creative hobbies at home, enjoy his retirement, and be with his family. There are no American troops in Baghdad, everything is fine, Intel is fine, and will soon be back to doing great things. Just ask Userbenchmark, Intel products are the best in class and highly sought after. nVidia has no real advantage in the AI race, and Intel is just dominating.

    That 16 billion is just a brief hiccup, company is totally about to do great.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 days ago

      Maybe now they can forget all the expensive chipmaking and get back to their core business of stock buybacks.

      • Diplomjodler
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        222 days ago

        That’s probably the real reason. He was going to invest all that money instead of doing more stock buybacks. What an idiot!

          • @ikidd
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            82 days ago

            It just frees up other money for buybacks that they would have had to waste on R&D.

            • sunzu2
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              12 days ago

              the fact that you have to explain to people that money is fungible…

              • @ikidd
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                22 days ago

                Well, at least one stupid fucker disagrees with that idea…

      • @psycho_driver
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        102 days ago

        This simultaneously made me laugh and sad. Sad because I have heavy investments in Intel.

      • pachrist
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        32 days ago

        While we’re at it, let’s go back to 10nm chips too. That’s Intel’s bread and butter. Phones get bigger every year. Why not transistors too?

      • sunzu2
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        42 days ago

        This is the real lesson here and US taxpayer has to now pay for Intel CapEx.

        These parasites are able to make “business” decisions that impact all of us with zero accountability.

        Clown capitalism and no lessons learned.

        Disgusting parasites are enabled here IMHO

        • @brucethemoose
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          The sentiment was not bad. TSMC is a shining example of how fab subsidies can be a good idea, and Intel’s fabs going under is bad and basically irreplaceable. Like… I am still happy with my tax dollars taking the risk, and Intel was clearly trying to right the ship when CHIPS was conceived.

          But theres clearly rot in Intel. Thats a big difference I guess, as TSMC was built from the ground up (in a time where that was possible) while Intel is already weighed down with its sins.

          • sunzu2
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            -12 days ago

            If we give them billions of dollars, then why are we not taking equity position?

            You do understand that shareholders were transferred 100billion dollars over last 20 years?

            Why is us taxpayers bailing out their position?

            Why Intel needs cash, why doesn’t intel issue shares and gut the shareholder?

            Eitherway, I am happy that you are satisfied with this transfer. I am not.

      • @Shadywack
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        31 day ago

        My comment was dripping with sarcasm, I refer to them as “Loserbenchmark” most anytime they come up. Complete toolbag shill assholes over there, lol.

        • sunzu2
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          222 hours ago

          Are they still posting salt over AMD cpus spanking Intel haha

          That shit started in 2017 and it got progressively more pathetic.

          AMD wasting money on marketing… sure buddy, cope