Under the agreement, Tower will utilize Intel’s advanced manufacturing facility in New Mexico. Tower will invest up to $300 million to acquire and own equipment and other fixed assets to be installed in the New Mexico facility, providing a new... — read more 

I've got my second offer since I started casually looking for something new a few months ago and both of them are under what I make here. The jobs are great but the compensation is just not where it should be. Is this normal these days? Should I... — read more 

New Huawei HiSilicon CPU at 7nm on SMIC process. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/huaweis-new-mystery-7nm-chip-from-chinese-fab-defies-us-sanctions https://www.techinsights.com/blog/techinsights-finds-smic-7nm-n2-huawei-mate-60-pro

https://x.com/pgelsinger/status/1698765370163929175 81 likes as of this post.

Simple reason not to pay you enough or give raise The California Department of Industrial Relations has announced that the minimum pay requirements for exempt computer software professionals will increase effective January 1, 2023, based upon an... — read more 

Credit to @lyo+1orfgVya This isn’t good Based on some calculations I just ran, Intel doesn't have sufficient cash to both purchase / outsource current designs to TSMC .AND. fund new process/fab build out for IFS. The amount of cash needed is... — read more 

Value: D Growth: F Momentum: B Overall: D Value measures. Intel forward PE is 60. The 'PEG' ratio is the ratio of PE to growth. Intel PEG is over 9. PEG under 2 is preferred. Intel revenue is 31% below what it was 2 years ago. The core... — read more 

Fabs require many expensive devices to function. Estimates put the cost of building a new fab over one billion U.S. dollars with values as high as $3–4 billion not being uncommon. TSMC invested $9.3 billion in its Fab15 300 mm wafer manufacturing... — read more 

company used to be very focused on product gross margins... it was in the50s/60s for a long time. Now it is well below 40%. For the first time in decades, Intel has to worry about investing cash flows and SG&A... TBH, Intel isn't very good at... — read more 

I think this is the clear sign of upcoming split up of design and manufacturing. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-to-spend-dollar97-billion-on-tsmc-outsourcing-in-2025-goldman-sachs The analysis from Goldman Sachs indicates that the overall... — read more 

I will name five critical areas required for success that Intel is missing, see if you can name five reasons why IFS should win. Intel has much higher cost structure then TSMC Intel has weak and inexperienced management in IFS Intel has no... — read more 

Watch minute 13 to 15 . Intel CEO mentions headcount reduction good lunch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yg06OWNQtbs&pp=ygUFSW50ZWw%3D

Intel Plans On Ramping Up “Outsourcing” To TSMC, Orders Exceeding $19 Billion Let’s be honest x86 is big business but when you can’t make it internally what do you do watch AMD I. The rear view mirror... — read more 

“Remember, I'm a customer of TSMC. So I know exactly what their wafer costs are, what their wafer ASP is, they're presenting to their N5 customers, to their N3 customers, their budgetary for N2. We know what the target is, right, for that.” A... — read more 

Why no one suing INTC over the tragic incident that happened earlier this year. There's a lot of money involved tbh

https://technews.tw/2023/09/01/intel-to-accelerate-arizona-fab-build-out-after-getting-large-customer-order/ who is this d-mb customer?

I have windows 10 work computer and overdue for new PC. I ordered and scheduled for pick up. Delivery day order was canceled...... WHY? NO PC INVENTORY. Classic incompetence. It's like dialysis center with no dialysis machines.

Is grade 6 software 120k base in Folsom low? I have an offer to join

https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-invest-12-bln-costa-rica-over-next-two-years-2023-08-30/

He was not able to find anything internally in 2 months

At least 1, probably more

Fab as a Service could work but only if the Feds prop it up forever. There’s reason to do that (if China takes over Taiwan at this point of TSMC’s concentrated market share, the US takes a huge economic hit). Is there any other strategy that... — read more 

https://fortune.com/2023/08/29/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-return-to-office-mandate-or-face-consequences/amp/

How worried should I be about layoffs as a relatively new hire?

IDM 2.0 is a huge gamble and not solid investing… Warren Buffett preferred to invest in TSM rather than INTC and that should tell us something. PG’s moonshot is an insane proposition and the real investors see it.

If a person is CPMed who typically delivers the massage? First level manager? Second level manager? HR? Automated massage?

Regardless of all negativities I’m positive about 5 nodes in 4 year’s strategy.

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2023/07/oregon-seeks-to-penalize-intel-31000-over-failed-pollution-controls.html Good job people! First you stopped cleaning the restrooms, and now you're actively polluting and harming the environment and... — read more 

If you have any worthwhile skills I would suggest you leave this shitshow that is Intel as soon and as fast as you can. And make sure never to look back. I know a few people who decided to return a few years after leaving, and each of them regrets... — read more 

The irony is here is that with each new process node Intel needs more products just to generate the same amount of factory utilization... with chip demand falling 20% per year, and five nodes in four years, the math doesn't work out. You end up... — read more 

Being nearly a year now no wafers have ran thru the fab since Xmas factory shutdown 2022

Is the goal to replace all older employees with younger and cheaper (or easier to control and get to do two jobs for the pay of one) workforce? Because from where I'm standing, that certainly seems to be the case. Does nobody at the top see all the... — read more 

If you are still at Intel and are there because you honestly belief the IFS strategy will work, can you explain why you believe that? How can Intel beat TSMC who has lower cost, better ecosystem, more nodes, more tools, more experience and process... — read more 

HR released a guideline comparing intel Hybrid work with FAANG to ask more days in office. I wish head of HR and management would compare salaries and RSUs too.

Just wondering

In the first half, Intel had $2.2Billion in operating losses...This is roughly $12 million dollars a day in losses! Assuming a $200K / year burden for each employee, Intel would have been break even if it had cut 22,000 workers... So again, I ask... — read more