drinking whiskey, sitting by the fire, waiting for the next generation to show you how it's done. Merry Christmas! happy Q4!

Even the trolls

http://www.siliconvalley.com/2016/11/30/intel-steps-on-the-gas-launches-new-self-driving-car-group/

Intel Bets It Can Turn Everyday Silicon into Quantum Computing’s Wonder Material The world’s largest chip com https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603165/intel-bets-it-can-turn-everyday-silicon-into-quantum-computings-wonder-material/

I want to ask you all a very personal question. To answer this, forget bout salary, focal, sabattical, ISP, VSP, and all of that what I call ancilliary crap. Take the work you are doing (if you are still at Intel), or the work you were doing (if you... — read more 

The assault on the last walled garden by the ARMy continues, little time left before the Titanic sinks. With more tools ARM will put severe pricing pressure on the last intel monopoly and Goggle, FB, MS and Amazon can't wait to support the ARMy... — read more 

https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2016/12/06/is-amd-licensing-radeon-graphics-to-intel/amp/ Intel to license AMD gfx tech..Oh days of larribee and wanting to be a leader of premium gfx solutions where have you gone? BK... — read more 

Microsoft turned the corner new team has done well better than Gates or Balmer. GOOGLE, Adobe, FB, even Apple has a younger work force. Amazing mangers

I don't know fact or not, but recently heard other senior people talking that board bypasses BK and talks to M, S and D directly. ACT was their idea and was forced on BK and RT. In fact, BK tried to resist and controlled the damage by limiting the... — read more 

Aicha said explicitly "we cannot survive with just Apple" and "Apple will give us a golden stamp for other customers to engage". Well suprise suprise there are no other customers and intel is selling for peanuts. Another $2.5bn lost when will they... — read more 

Short short short short short.

All of you fearmongering, disgruntled ISP'ers can go back to burger flipping!

Best CEO ever!!! 😍😘

ince 2011 revenue up 5%, expenses up.30%. solution: increase revenue and/or reduce expenses.

xmm7480 to be manufactured on TSMC 28nm.

Why are you guys still here? You're running hard just to stand still. If you slow down a bit, growth tanks and layoffs result. I wouldn't want to build a career with such stagnation.

Hi everyone, I'm planning to leave Intel, had some questions regarding the best quitting procedure. I'm not sure what exact steps to follow, because (somehow, magically) my manager is in a different site, and I haven't seen / spoken to him for a full... — read more 

Can't wait for MWC17. Qualcomm will show up with the X50 5G modem in a phone ready for sampling in a few months time. Intel will show up with a server rack containing Alerta FPGAs that will be connected by wires to an iPhone 7 for 4G fall back. When... — read more 

if know anything about Intel: They will staff 5G with external people - probably dominated by URMs and H1B. They won't allow anyone from 4G to work on it as these people are somehow to blame even though It's bad leadership. therefore no knowledge... — read more 

The Trump rally. The energy recovery. The resurgence of Wall Street. Think those are the year’s big financial stories? They’re interesting, sure. But something much bigger is going on at one company most Americans have never heard of. Shares of... — read more 

Rumor has it if you write a sincere, heartfelt letter of contrition to Intel HR, explaining how you now see the error of your ways, that you didn't give your 110% while you were working there, both in attitude and effort, and that you now see that... — read more 

This is a way management can make massive costs cuts by stealth. imagine they need to reduce headcount by 12k, that's only 3k per quarter. much easier to hide as performance layoffs.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/12/19/intel-financial-stagnation.html

last week Murthy presented directly to the board a plan to bring Intel expenses under control. presenting different scenarios that may materialize over the next 2years Murthy recommended to the board that headcount be reduced by 30,000 to 85,000.

http://electroiq.com/blog/2016/12/number-of-ic-manufacturers-using-300mm-wafers-less-than-half-using-200mm-wafers/ It may lead in revenue but not for long. X86 sales continue to decline as mobile and ARMy dominates it all. Continued volume drops and... — read more 

Folks: I was offered and took VSP in April and left first of May in 2016. I do need to tell you that in the 7 months since that time, my health has greatly improved. I lost 5 pounds. No more insomnia, rashes gone from my skin, no more jock itch, the... — read more 

For those of us who took the enhanced retirement package does anyone know if we get both a retirement contribution of 5% of earnings and SERPPLUS if we hit the government limit on earnings????

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/blackberry-autonomous-car/ This is the type of creative destruction needed at Intel. Thoughts?

Certainly not by talking to it. Least of all trying to give advice to it by posting a bunch of stuff on this board of all places. Do any of you people seriously think the headless chicken reads these crap? First, it doesn't have a head so it couldn't... — read more 

Interesting article in the WSJ. If Microsoft can do it, maybe Intel can Look Who’s Back! Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader Dec. 16, 2016 10:07 a.m. ET After years of missteps, the software giant is among the few titans of the 1990s to... — read more 

...Now if people develop cancer and brain tumor down the road, plausible deniability that it had anything to do with contaminated water. But hey, we don't need any stinking EPA regulations....

*Intel no longer has the same monopolistic powers which its alliance with Microsoft once provided. *The demands associated with GPUs and mobile processor workloads, fields which Intel chose to ignore for long periods of time, have forced Nvidia and... — read more 

I am curios if anyone still inside at the Oregon sites know if GPTW is still planning to do the annual Christmas season GPTW event of the Intel private night at OMSI (The science museum in Portland)? If so, and I just happen to be making a trip from... — read more 

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