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Intel living and dying by Moore's law

It has not been long since Gordon Moore has passed. But for a few years before that, it was obvious that Moore's law, as it was understood inside Intel, is dying.

For Intel, Moore's was only about silicon and pushing for circuits with smaller and smaller scale metrology on silicon. This single minded focus made the company neglect investing in alternate technologies. They headlines with quantum processors etc. but underneath, such work never got serious funding and support.

As scaling on silicon is nearing it's end, we are now seeing Intel also following the path. All companies are finding it difficult to scale. But they kept the older nodes going, to sustain their revenues. Intel's mismanagement and failures over the last decade haven't left them with the luxury of having well matured older nodes.

Result is there for all to see.

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The number 1 problem at intel has been internal politics and series of horrible management. The problem started over 20 years ago when intel started to treat engineers as pure 'head count', and it was HR, Legal and other MBAs that took the helm. As a result 'we' the nerds (like the inspirational engineer Ted Hoff before us) , who thought of the next great thing, started to leave, and found other places where we could be free to innovate and find home. We driven out by incompetent management, as if they felt threatened. The new management ran Intel more from a preceptive of what was safe for their careers, rather then what was best for the company. This was a result of intel's own policy of treating employees as if they were disposable, subjecting them to ranking and spanking every review cycle, the arrogance (perhaps stemming from the management style of Andy Grove) , which eventually led to their downfall. Risk taking and failing was a career ender. New management did what they needed to do, in order to survive the political minefields their own incompetency created, and they payed safe, by finding new creative ways to milk the same cow, rather then innovate. Intel never got a visionary like Robert Noyce again. The man was a legend, and Intel has milked the seeds he (and Gordon Moore) planted decades ago. Time to find a visionary nerd to run this company, with an engineering/passionate soul.

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Post ID: @2kex+1vWXAfzm

I remember reading an anylist a few years back (I can't remember name or publication) who stated that Moore's Law is indeed alive and well, just not at Intel. That stung because it was true. Intel was ekeing money out of 12 nm for over decade. They ctually handed out T-shirts with the dates (eye roll) from beginning to end as if proud. Meanwhile, others were started RND on 3 nm while producing 5 nm components.

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Post ID: @1mij+1vWXAfzm

Remember when we tried to change node naming conventions? Basically stop using Moore’s law… a founder of the company and an industry standard. SMH

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Post ID: @1krs+1vWXAfzm

Intel is dying by horrible management, bad designs, poor QC, and missing all tech inflection points. Also, add ruthless internal politics to the list.

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