Reminder that Intel was run into the ground by this clown.
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Where is spider Pat?
I think you mean BK, not PG
Pat still living rent free in people's heads........pathetic!
@ab Communication was loose? More like he had verbal f**king diarrhea! Creepy MF!
Wild that there are still some Pat true believers. Sure, Intel was already burning down from a decade of bad leadership before he came back, but he poured kerosene all over the fire. He talked and acted as if Intel was still the company it was in 1997. Maybe that viewpoint resonated with some overly romantic employees, but it was wholly inappropriate for pulling a company out of a death spiral.
Pat has a very long and very skinny slender weiner. It looks like an old witches finger. Look at him. Try to picture it. You can see it in your mind’s eye.
Innovators Dilemma
Who cares how Intel got here. At this point does it really matter? You can't go back and fix it.
I liked Pat
Gentle reminder that Bob Swan throttled R&D and capital investment and pumped tens of billions into stock buybacks and dividend increases, then dipped the moment his hiring stock vested. If we'd invested in process, product and capacity at that time instead we would not be here.
@ac was a dud since we got in the game late. We also needed to spend to gain capacity. Tsmc towers over us in terms of capacity
I am all for no more talking about Pat’s legacy. Just remember if we can’t you can’t either — no more talk of bringing back Groveian culture, of succeeding by leapfrogging nodes / 5in4, and definitely no more whining that we would have made it if we just laid off enough woke slackers.
My guess is y’all want to continue to talk about Pat’s legacy.
Pat broke the balance sheet with reckless spending and reduced the value of the stock from 50 to 20.
IFS is a dud and cost billions that will be written off.
These are inconvenient facts.
If Pat had done what LBT is now doing, he might still be CEO, but his communication style was far too loose for a company that is struggling like Intel.
To repeatedly promise things that he was told internally could not happen, would get any CEO pushed out. The Board bought off on what he was doing so shares the blame in any case.
That said, to go on and on about him is just trolling. Time to move on.
It’s not entirely Pats fault. Intel’s downfall started a long time ago. It started when Intel was walking around town with a puffed chest, like they were hot Sh!t. Now we are just a pile of cold diarrhea 💩
It was long before Pat starting with Paul and then BK and the attitude that inetel was better than everyone and thinking customers would always want the intel product. That lead to never wanting to be a foundry and setting intel behind to the rest of the world.
@OP pi-s off mate
He was part of the problem to begin with and the board hired him back. Not a good look for Intel.
@a5 still believes Intel is going to turn it around with 14A
OP is still pretty worked up about Pat stopping by his cube and walking away with his red stapler.
Legacy back fr d-mb PSO and BK who can’t keep it in his pants with primary enabler chairman AB