I hear that Intel aims to concentrate all R&D to a few megasites (at least thousands of employees) and aims to shut down most of the sites under 500 employees during this year. This has been the trend for a while but will get more aggressively forced now.
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I hope Costa Rica and Guadalajara get shut down ASAP. Totally useless, except to provide nice vacations and pleasure girls to Intel execs.
Forget about Santa Clara. We can't hire a CEO there. What would make anyone think they could hire or retain good technical talent when Google and Apple are a few miles away?
@1mdy - @vjs was mentioning sites that actually add value to the company. India is not only not adding any value, but actually subtracting engineering work hours from other sites due to the massive training effort required to ramp up the masses of ignorant Indians and then fixing all of the bugs and defects that plague any work they do. But hey, that's what "low cost" geos get you.
@vjs wow seriously, you are sooooo out of touch! Not one “emerging geo” on your list? What of our massive India back office? What of Assembly Test? Where the labor is cheap! No your list simply won’t cut it.
Still too spread out, tight collaboration is required top to bottom and why not scale and centralization of organization and culture lock step is key.
Look at Samsung and TSMC or Huawei as examples of scale and centralization winning it all.
Intel had a chance but miss managed it and Humpty Dumpty has fallen and no amount can recover.
Makes sense. Ireland. Oregon. Israel. Santa Clara. Arizona.