https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-reduces-server-pricing-to-fight-amd
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Less budget for salaries.
Stagnant stock price is not competitive with other semi companies.
Good people leave and convince other good people to follow.
The remaining fight it out in political hunger games for a shrinking budget as revenue growth is non-existent.
Then the downward spiral continues as only B and C caliber engineers would want to stay in that environment. It’s pretty much a death sentence for a company the relies on innovation.
as usual, profit margin drop
then operating cost goes up
what you can expect is lower & lower nett earnings
I've never had time for Intel creating 400 different CPUs just to create artificial market segmentation and force people into a more expensive CPU. Why is there an i3, i5, i7, i9 - ahh, right, because then you can try to justify charging incrementally more for each additional feature. Oh you want turbo boost? Sorry that's an i5! Oh you want hyperthreading/SMT? Nope, next model up. Oh you want ECC? That's a "workstation" feature, here's an identical xeon with nothing new other than ECC!
Just STOP. EVERY CPU they make should support ECC in 2021.
Give me an option for with or without GPU, and with or without 10Gbe - everything else should be standard. Differentiate with clock speed, core count, and a low power option, and be done with it.