Pat Gelsinger was an executive at Intel in 2007 when we fumbled the ball and missed the mobile chip bo-m of the iPhone. Yes it was in our labs with our chip running in it. Official statement from Intel: “Not enough immediate return on investment”. THIS is our turn around guy?
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What does lrb mean?
Intel id--ts take whatever was said by Gordon or Andy or whomever and turn into Holy Gospel. Due to lack of own assessment or just plain incompetence. Yeah sure do what you do well, run until you need to swim in a triathlon. Id--ts gallery thinking themselves as 'influentials'
Why did LRB fail? Testing teams found an extreme amount of software bugs and fixing them was not as high of a priority as getting it out the door. This is the way it works at intel, Nothing new about LRB.
For reference, Nvidia driver has 25M lines of code and was tested for 1.8M hours in a year.
https://x.com/pcgamer/status/1519910448505790465?s=46&t=hYI25_JJ8CrdThJPekvgJQ
Why did LRB fail?
Incompetent software engineers.
Intel su-ks at software.
Somebody forgot to tell Pat that drivers are often more complex than the hardware and you need actual software engineering talent for that.
Same mistake is being made with AI hardware.
Why did LRB fail? What could he have done then?
Pat still thinks LRB could have beat Nvidia.
What a clown.
Andy Grove wrote "Only the Paranoid Survive".
Gordon Moore wrote an interesting essay entitled "The Accidental Entrepreneur", in which he concluded (among other things) that ". . . it's important to remember one other thing that is essential for any entrepreneurial organization: do what you do well. Look at other things as incremental opportunities, but don't change the basis of what you do well."
@gte - I agree, the iphone failure was on PSO, he even admitted it after retiring: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ghosts-wintel-leaders-learn-diverging-110000375.html
However, the failure of LRB and discrete graphics was squarely on PG. That was a complete dumpster fire too, a massive waste of time and money, and again, due to bad management decisions.
Good point. We could have picked many other people to turn the ship around. Why pick a guy who was part of the failure? I think they all missed the point of Gordon Moore book. Only the Paranoid Survive. -Be paranoid of the competition and future of your company-. The school of executives Pat Gelsinger is from are only paranoid of missing a milestone bonus for their own pocket. And....we see the results.
I’m not one to defend how things are going lately but this post is unhinged. Yes he was an executive at the time but he didn’t make the call on this. Weird post.