5Y4N
IDM2.0
IFS
Fab and factory expansions
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Wintel ! Amatel ! Alphatel ! Metatel ! HPtel ! Lentel ! Delltel !
x86ers ! ELT Boomers !
Were gutted in our BU ! DWs and NWs in the fabs now ! W-watchmen !
Next we will fire the bagged toolsets that are unproductive !
Soaking every ounce of blood from the turnip !
No, I never trusted Pat or his "strategy". He didn't spend a single minute to fix the toxic working environment. I won't call myself a big visionary but i analyzed what would make me more productive. It is just the toxic culture and I was part of it as well. I quit Intel and life is great.
If you real look back our whole golden area was built of marketing scams. But did public bought it so we became a juggernaut. All those is know would try to call us out but they were ants to us. So we ran unchecked for a bit there until it finally caught up to us. Our reputation ( which side note - internally we need a walk up call and fast we aren’t that juggernaut anymore to anyone but internally many still think and act like we are) was never deserved or earned in first place. Its been a scam for a long time now
As an engineer, never believed the strategy from Pat. All high talks without details, marketing scams without scientific proof, lies without penalty. Three levels of higher or middle management all tell lies.
He-l no. I thought all those plans were stupid.
5N4Y: As a consumer that tells me to not buy Intel CPUS as the node generations are rushed and never allowed to mature.
Building new fabs: Expand and retool existing ones is far cheaper.
IDM2.0: Just the latest verbal and mental masturbation
Well if that strategy doesn’t work then we can just try to modify a different one very quick and easy. Let throw out some letters and numbers for the investors buy in and give us their money
6Y3N
IDM 3.0
IFS and fab expansions
7Y2N
IDM 4.0
IFS and fab expansions
Us lowly paid employees all seen it for what a sh-tshow it was.
The problem is all the decision makers and advisors are paid so much money they never learn to save and spend cautiously, they aren't aware of real life budgeting, like the lives of your family depends on it.
The strategy is right. The epic spending on “hope” that all will magically turn out, that’s a big problem. As is the incompetence that was/is? still running these orgs where it takes a year to make a decision.
The vision is right (Froundry, etc. instead of being a "me-too" company like AMD and NVIDIA). The execution is the problem.
I never thought PG was worth his salt, even way back when he got fired the first time.
Believe it or not ,but MT's were questioning this two years ago, I remember multiple conversations in the food hall about how Intel is expanding too quickly and burning through cash. How can they afford to dig big holes in the ground all over the world we wondered . Every month brought a new project costing x amount of billions. It didn't take a financial expert to see it was a very risky endeavor. While I think the plan was good, it just moved to fast leaving the company at peril on its cashflow if it experienced any economic headwinds. Build 1 new fab , get it dialed in , get customer orders, turn a profit, move on to building next fab , the way it was done was foolhardy
He sold us a pipe dream. I know hindsight is 20/20 but all the phds and highly educated people should have saw that this was way to ambitious and impossible. He-l it almost comes across as immature and child like logic and planning. Shame on all the experts we have for not acting like guardrails to this. Telling or advising him to dial it back a bit. Where were you guys?? There are posts on here telling our expert senior retiree to just GTFO and don’t expect a pat on the back or trophy for a career well done. And it’s because of this. They are leaving expecting a standing ovation while they stood around and allowed this nonsense to happen. Now the company is in shambles. Many people will lose their jobs and their homes and families because of this. So no career of 25+ years not well done. Where were you so called leaders of our teams?!
My sentiments as well.
You don't start building as much as he did when you're low on cash and you have no customers.
And he bet TD on the clueless fat lady who lies about the technology status. Instead of fixing what was broken he thought he could just spend his way out of it.
His foundry vision is still the right thing in my opinion. The problem was that he was way too ambitious. You don’t build 8!!! Nodes at the same time. He started with the Israel expansion 5 years ago and added AZ, OH AND Germany. This is a $200B adventure that is very expensive