Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

The rot and direction of the company runs wide and deep

Looks like the bodies are falling left and right, first the 10nm debacle resulted in a host of changes and claims that the new leaders learned and put in place the necessary cultural and leadership changes. They scaled back the goals and took out some of the rot and played a game, well the tide continues to pull back and sadly nothing has changed in Hillsboro and the rot is deep and another round of sacrifices are being made.

I kind of feel bad for the fat man, he was paid a lot and a lot was expected but he got responsibility for fixing a group that for lack of a better word is a bunch of religious zealots who can’t change and so full of themselves, sad for the far man. The fat man was asked to change the stripes of a Zebra and anyone who has worked in Hillsboro knows the stripes are branded early in everyone’s career that is anyone there. Poor Murthy had an impossible task and the next leader the same for anyone to fix the Titanic it has hit the iceberg and has been taking water and will sink not if bit only when. The correct analogy is like that last moment when it broke in half and bobbed a bit before the final plunge. Well it has broken in half with admission that they are going outside.

Bean counter bob and his merry men as new lady will be like the titanic try and get a few people to the life boats before TMG and US silicon slips beneath the Ocean.

Big layoffs are coming as TMG sheds capacity and people and move it all to TSMC

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@hel+16a2qpDY remember the lack of transparency from Hillsboro and the continued lack of it, SA behavior still runs deep and wide in the organization

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Post ID: @7xfy+16a2qpDY

Murthy is beautiful.

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Post ID: @5nxo+16a2qpDY

Corruption is horrible at Intel. My old boss told me who is good and who is not, before he left the team. New boss came in and immediately asked if we should give propositions to someone who my old boss considered not very good. It is OK to have different opinions due to different preferences/needs. But fact that new boss proposed so quickly for a specific group of people is extremely worrisome.

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Post ID: @1pxd+16a2qpDY

BK destroyed the company in 3 ways. He lacked vision and chased magic butterflies like Drones, Diversity, Game Shows and what not. Coming from a Fab background, he did little to continue Intel's process leadership - that core competence of Intel which made Intel the global giant it is. Second, he fired all senior leaders who had the vision , passion and sentiment to see the company succeed. Third, he brought in mercenary execs like Murthy whose heart was not in Intel, not to mention his prior experience at a fabless company.

In net, BK destroyed all leadership and morale in the company irreparably.

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Post ID: @1bet+16a2qpDY

Reg. the comment "if head is cut off, body dies" in this case, the head was k–ling the body. Removing the head will give some short-term respite to the body but eventually it will die as well.

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Post ID: @1pyq+16a2qpDY

Intel is hopelessly lost. Putting the people who couldn't get 10nm to market in charge of getting Intel back on top is a joke. Any CEO with real vision would have spun off the fabs 5 years and made Intel a fabless design house. Intel forgot how to compete 30 years ago. So sad but expect 50K
Layoffs

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Post ID: @1mgh+16a2qpDY

If the head is cut off ( non functional), the body dies.....

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Post ID: @1oqk+16a2qpDY

To say that Andy Bryant deserves any credit for firing BK is akin to saying that someone, anyone, deserves credit for wiping their own _ss

Andy Bryant should've been gone after it became apparent what he enabled and allowed BK to destroy

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Post ID: @1bwq+16a2qpDY

Totally with previous posts. Steve Jobs said "A players hire A players; B players hire C players; C players hire D players ..." Intel has very few, if any, A players on the top. Unfortunately that may be inevitable when a company grows beyond some threshold, because there are not that many true A players. That's how we came to where we are today.

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Post ID: @1kya+16a2qpDY

TMG is imploding it appears

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Post ID: @1qmf+16a2qpDY

I worked for Intel MD6 in Beaverton and Hillsboro before. It was a solid organization when Andy Grove was CEO. I received Microprocessor Division Award from him. It is unfortunate to see the trouble Intel is going thru. How can the CEO blame this "murthy" fat jack a–. It is known that folks like "murthy" are chronic liars. It is the stupidity of the current Intel management to believe him. All this fat a– did was nepotism. My neighbor, whose origin is the same as murthy, claims to be an architecture in Intel. All he does in the past two years was to rebuild his new home in Fremont Mission with the Intel shareholders money.

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Post ID: @tyc+16a2qpDY

Murthy was a jackass

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Post ID: @vzq+16a2qpDY

Poor Murthy?? GImme a freaking break.

If not for him the Cove architectures would've been ported to 14nm long ago

Don't even go making excuses for that jack_ss

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