Topics regarding layoffs at Intel Corp.

Topics regarding layoffs at Intel Corp.

Most Management Is Bad Management

One of the biggest surprises I got after graduating from college was discovering that contrary to expectations, MOST management was bad management. That's why something like 40% of businesses that survive their infancy don't make it to their 5th... — read more 

How much longer for Pastor Pat at the helm??

How much longer do you fellas think Pastor Pat will steer the ship? 3 leaders for IFS in 3 years suggests we are close to hitting the iceberg and the Inteltanic sinking afterwards… meanwhile no IFS whale…

Never get emotionally attached to a company

In my 40 year career, I’ve worked for various semiconductor companies. A lot of these companies are not around anymore. Dynasties come and go, fact of life. I learned long ago that you need to have the thought that you work to live, not live to work... — read more 

Real or Bluffing?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-says-asml-high-na-euv-machine-not-necessary-a16-node-2024-05-14/

Surveys are back

Feel free to vent off some steam there. I bet the ELT and PG would be reading it.

Intel insider on IFS leadership

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vinayakagrawal_intel-shakes-up-leadership-of-its-push-into-activity-7196164161226059776-deT1 lol.

11bn investment in Ireland

More bailout bucks? https://m.independent.ie/business/technology/intel-in-talks-to-secure-11bn-to-expand-its-operations-in-kildare/a1473871353.html

Pension at Intel

Does anyone else have a pension from Intel? They discontinued the benefit soon after I became an employee. The benefit is therefore minimal, but every bit helps. Curious about how they decided what level of pension an employee received back then... — read more 

New Foundry Leader

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1695/kevin-obuckley-to-lead-foundry-services-at-intel

ELT ranking

GL (pro grifter) SR (ultra grifter) PG (delusional megalomaniac) SK (clueless) MJ (utterly clueless) SafY (DEI quota, McKinsey BS er) JH (too soon to tell) AK (ridiculously clueless) SP (PGs hitman) DZ (PGs intern) — read more 

Bye bye Xeon…

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/07/apple-is-reportedly-developing-chips-to-run-ai-software-in-data-centers-.html Bye bye Xeon… ARM taking the data center by storm!

CUDA at Nvidia and Intel… nothing…

ELT / PG brought G. Lavender to “fix” software at Intel… in roughly three years, what has been fixed? It continues to be a hot mess with no direction and no good attempt to catch up to CUDA. If hardware isn’t cutting it anymore (M4s from Apple... — read more 

Embarrassing Sycophancy in Intel

In a week where the US Government BANS the exports of Intel chips to China, accounting to about 25% of our global revenue, here is an example of the total lack of self awareness, self delusion and sycophancy on show in our company, this time in the... — read more 

Apple M4 chip

Apple’s tablet chip is faster than Intel’s fastest desktop. https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks Intel = 3100 https://x.com/vadimyuryev/status/1788338408445919698?s=46&t=hYI25_JJ8CrdThJPekvgJQ Apple M4 = 3800 In a tablet. — read more 

Just keep resting on your laurels!

There is no comeback. You will have to split market share with amd and Qualcomm. There is no bounce back. Hard to see foundry working either… there is no high volume whale to spread these huge capital costs over…

EGO is Intels fatal flaw

Fire everyone in top level management and replace them with folks who actually do the work. THEY KNOW the path for a turnaround! They have been trying desperately over the years to tell you when your fu--ing up.. Time to stop talking and listen... — read more 

A real AI company

CEO Lisa Su said Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle use AMD’s MI300X. AMD said it had sold over $1 billion of the chips since it launched in the fourth quarter of 2023. AMD expects $4 billion in 2024 AI chip sales, up from a $3.5 billion forecast in... — read more 

Is Intel BYOD Laptop

Considering offer… any issues with using my own laptop if I think that the default one su-ks? What about Internet and cell cell phone for remote work?

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