Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Send in the clowns

Wish I could take credit but this is a copy-pasta from another thread - @JbZKD9L-cvp

Pretty much nails Intel management for being a bunch of moronic clowns.

  • The clown management that thought McAfee was a good idea.

  • The same clown management that thought Meego was a good idea.

  • The same clown management that thought Mica bracelets were a good idea.

  • The same clown management that thought adding +$50 touch screen options to every notebook was a good idea.

  • The same clown management that thought Intel could compete with Apple and Qualcomm in apps processors when Intel has ZERO technical expertise in software to deliver such products.

  • The same clown management that thinks that IoT in meaningful instead of what it really it - a nebulous re-branding of embedded technology (which has been around for 30 years - wallowing in low-margin hell).

  • The same clown management that thinks that getting BACK into the COMMODITY memory business is a great idea when Samsung and other Asian players have all of the scale and Intel doesn't

  • The same clown management that thought Will.I.Am was a good idea.

  • The same clown management that thinks that they can with at 5G when they failed at Wimax, lost the 3G apple account and has to give away 4G/LTE for a song.

  • The same clown management that has to PAY CUSTOMERS to take their crappy tablet products (contra-revenue) in order to compete in the zero margin Chinese tablet market.

  • The same clown management that passed on iPhone and let TSMC and Samung fabs get to huge scale and threaten the core cash cow business

  • The same clown management that has ZERO knowledge about how to cut employees and retain talent as the brain drain flows to Apple

  • The same clown management that has to lever up the balance sheet with debt to buy back stock in order to prop up the stock price - borrowing from our future to keep up appearances.

These guys give CLOWNS a bad name.

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Post ID: @OP+Jc6Go6o

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The bubble will burst when ARM gains traction in content creation PCs

Look for it in 2017

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Post ID: @1ikr+Jc6Go6o

@Jc6Go6o-ctp - Stock price bubble will burst by next year when TSMC/Samsung come out with their 10nm processes on actual products while Intel's 10nm is MIA ... LOL

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Post ID: @bcn+Jc6Go6o

How long do you think before the bubble bursts? I thought it was going to be by about now so started selling about first of year. Didn't predict interest rates would drop even more. I think 10yr tresuary @ ~1.6% has a lot to do with intel at 36. And the analysis community seems remarkably bullish considering the risks. On the other hand, intel has weathered many rough competitive times in the past.

The whole market and interest rate phenomenon has my head bobing side to side then i circles like a drunk auto driver in delhi trying to understand us presidential race. I guess I should have studied business not engineering.

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Post ID: @ctp+Jc6Go6o

@Jc6Go6o-cug You are so correct.

The list of miss execution is long, the list of real cultural and structural changes that have to happen but haven't as well. ACT and the spin can deceive the outside and the uneducated internal and if the following happens maybe the lies can continue.

x86 stabilize in 2017, I give it a 50% chance.

Server grows at high single percentage points, I give it a 75%

10nm really comes in and ramps in second half of 2017, I give it a 10%. Remember I said ramp, not a paper launch.

The other things (IoT, memory, modems, 5g ) buzz words with nothing but spends they 2018.

Do the math but 2017 and 2018 will see more ACTs unless more drastic changes incliding changing CEO and TMG don't happen

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Post ID: @ngs+Jc6Go6o

The stock is up due to a levering of the balance sheet.

Borrowing is way up in order to buy back stock.

This leverage boosts returns, but obviously increases the risk profile.

The market hasn't really priced in the risks yet.

The risks are enormous and having clowns running the company increases the risk even further.

Intel is in a very fragile and precarious state right now. Few people seem to understand this.

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Post ID: @cug+Jc6Go6o

Leadership starts at the top.

Or alternatively, a fish rots from the head down.

The leaders in the C-suite are still pretty much there.

The board of directors are still there.

There is no accountability at the top.

If BK isn't out by next year, Intel is in serious strategic jeopardy.

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Post ID: @lcs+Jc6Go6o

I think they do understand management is also a problem. That is why so many outside new bosses and vp level purges over past few years. Just compare vp ranks 3 years ago to today and you will see if anything high levels have been hit harder than ic. What is questionable is if the new guys are better or worse.

If we use friday stock price as a metric its hard for a share holder to be too upset

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Post ID: @uxt+Jc6Go6o

Do not forget Kno by Intel education

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Post ID: @npe+Jc6Go6o

It is unbelievable how they still think management isn't the problem but the employees are !!

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Post ID: @yes+Jc6Go6o

#gold post

Wish I could take credit but this is a copy-pasta from another thread - @JbZKD9L-cvp

Pretty much nails Intel management for being a bunch of moronic clowns.

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