Things have gotten so bad and the arrogant Intel management still thinks they have a handle on it. Wasn't it Einstein who said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results? PG doesn't have the mental toughness to do what is needed. I bet he prays hard every night about it but that isn't what the company needs. The company needs a leader who actually takes charge. The problems in this company are between grades 10 and 14. Those are the people making decisions and are entrenched in doing the same things that worked in the 90s over and over again. Intel's competitors don't have that deadweight baggage to drag along and they are innovating and growing. Intel needs to get rid of at least 40,000 employees in order to have the agility to change with the markets and consumer demand. Instead, it appears PG just can't do that for what ever reason. All of the other tech companies that used to be Intel's peers have figured that out. I said used to be peers because Intel isn't even discussed in those circles any more. The company is a has been.
PG has fiduciary responsibilities as the CEO to make sound decisions based on tangible data for the company and not faith. I am not condemning the man's faith but it has a place and he doesn't have the right drag this company down by being a weak leader praying for the right answers.
Look at PGs history as a leader. At Intel during his first run he was mentored and guided through the ranks. When it came down to choosing between 4 or 5 great candidates to succeed Dr CB the job went to PO. I would bet that PG didn't get the job because he wasn't mentally tough enough without someone holding his hand. At VMware, PG didn't really have to make any tough decisions. It is a great product that saved companies boat loads of money on hardware and opened the doors to software based infrastructure and incredible automation in the data center. His job was just starting to get hard there with competition in cloud from AWS and Azure but he left for Intel before he had to prove his toughness to make the right decisions.
Intel won't change and that is going to be its demise. I hope the US government doesn't label Intel to big to fail. Instead, I hope they take a page from the 2008 financial crisis and treat Intel like Wachovia bank. Wachovia was failing badly and the government forced/coerced Wells Fargo to take it over. I hope something similar happens here with the government forcing an NVIDIA, AMD, or Qualcomm or maybe create a semiconductor consortium to step up and deliver what the country and our allies need.
Sad to see this company languish but here we are. 99% of people don't need a 30+ core laptop based on a the 25th generation of a 1980s architecture. The competition is focused elsewhere. I hope the best for my friends who still work there.