- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion
- technology
- hardware
- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion
- technology
- hardware
Former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, who stepped down from his leadership post a week ago, is inviting people to join him in prayer and fasting for the struggling chipmaker’s employees.
😆
I don’t even know what I’d do as CEO.
Pat’s direction was spot on. Cut “side” divisions to focus on their core, stick with long term bets most CEOs wouldn’t (like the GPU division) and try to cut the delays.
…But the delays keep coming!
If they just can’t launch products on time with whatever rot is in the company, I’m not sure what Intel is supposed to do.
…So whoever they hire as CEO now is probably there to just distribute golden parachutes and eat the company as it dies :/
This is assuming there isn’t some gold in the pipeline. Timeline on a new CPU design is about 8 years from first drawings to actual silicon hitting media test benches, meaning whatever was started in 2019 and 2020 could be absolutely killer and just cooking to perfection in the R&D oven…assuming R&D was kept sufficiently funded and the engineering talent retained to see such a process through
Their CPUs are mostly fine now. The “small” cores are very competitive in servers because they are so small for their perf, and TBH that desktop drama was marketing clocking the CPUs way too high to squeak out 4% more benchmark performance.
It’s… everything else that’s the problem, as work is increasingly shifting away from CPUs. They are totally screwed if they cut funding for Arc, in particular, or if they don’t secure any real fab customers.
Maybe being transparent about their manufacturing defects would have been a good start.
Ohh, all of our users are getting frequent BSODs? SMOKE BOMB!
I read that in Krieger’s voice