Pat at Mar-A-Lago to help Elon manage his latest toy.
The Board is so f'd
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Why is Pat at Mar-a-lago?
Post ID: @a7+1jh3sc0mg
Thank you. Finally, clear thinking!
@a7
Sorry but gaudi and arc are failures.
Both hugely unprofitable and market flops.
Pat destroyed Intel already. The 4 years was critical but Pat drove Intel downhill.
He hired too many external people from GlobalFoundry, who cheated and further destroyed Intel.
He also broke relationship with other companies, leaving Intel more isolated.
Troll post. Don’t feed the trolls.
PG is a giant loser that destroyed literally over 100 BILLION dollars of value.
What was right about him?
@a8 I think haters are gonna hate
I think OP and @a7 are the same person and are completely high. What is with all these Pat lovers? He is a creepy christian nationalist that had a huge ego and zero business acumen. He failed at Larrabee and was booted out and then he failed at being a CEO and was booted out. Stop already.
PG strategy was flawed, in that it built capacity before there was proven demand.
Even if he was just trying to soak up gov't welfare, greenfield sites did not have to be built.
Ireland did not need to ramp 1276, because before that ramp began they knew all the internal demand had shifted to TSMC.
Far too much R&D spending, all in the name of rushing to get to 18A.
He showed serious lack of messaging discipline and his inability to bring external customers on board (a key CEO OKR) shows he was not the right fit for a company that really needs to bring external customers on board.
But..he was right in setting up Floundry and Product groups to report separately, and to push Product designs to be more power efficient.
Every CEO has hits and misses and I think over time he will be seen as the best CEO Intel had since Andy Grove (at least up to this point).
Gaudi and ARC both show how improvements can happen if the company can take its ADHD meds and stop flip flopping on product decisions.
Neither are where they need to be, but the GPU efforts may yet save the company, as CPU relevance is on the wane.
OP, feel free to elaborate on that statement.