ELT / PG brought G. Lavender to “fix” software at Intel… in roughly three years, what has been fixed? It continues to be a hot mess with no direction and no good attempt to catch up to CUDA. If hardware isn’t cutting it anymore (M4s from Apple, Snapdragon X Series from Qualcomm vs. Toasters i9), can they fix software?? Even the drivers on 13th/14th Gen are a mess, are they not??
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It's a cycle. When you can't attract top talent your product is mediocre. When you have mediocre products you will not be attracting top talent.
Not saying the talent ‘should’ work at Google.
We’re saying that the good talent is ALREADY at Google and other such places. Intel can’t attract talent of that caliber and must hire more mediocre engineers.
Of course this is a statement about averages. I’m sure there’s one or two good ones at Intel for every 20 or so at Google. Like a 20x ratio.
Why are u nellies saying that talents should work at Google etc while you are unemployed?
The software business based on Intel HW for AI also seems like a huge joke. Either these numbskulls don't understand it or they're just conning the rest. I don't know which one is worse if you're an employee or a stockholder.
But wasn’t GL supposed to fix the mess of software at INTC?? It’s still a giant mess!!
@lbe
This begs the question.
Why would good software engineers accept a job that is overworked without commensurate pay?
Again, good engineers avoid these situations.
So only mediocre engineers stay.
GL was good for some free t-shirts though right? Can’t look at him tho.
Intel is communism. Why go to medical school to be a doctor so you can live in the same house and drive the same car as the guy paving the roads? Meanwhile the party leaders su-k all the resources.
@joa It's not pay per employee. It is number of employees in important areas vs. other areas. Overworking software developers while someone else in a different business unit has the same job grade and they are not bringing even a tenth of the ROI
I still lol at RK's oneAPI . So naive, so adorably clueless about the improbability of it succeeding at INTC.
Good software engineers work at Google, Apple, Microsoft etc.
If you are a talented software engineer, why would you want to work at Intel?
Logically, this means that Intel can only attract mediocre engineers. This leads to mediocre software.
Unless you’re willing to outbid Microsoft or Google and the likes… expect mediocrity.