Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Totally lack of vision from any Intel technologist or senior manager. Somewhere there was an Intel technologist who saw the potential and the threat from ARM years ago but the insular and arrogant and incompetent management has a cultural so poisonous here that no new idea that is good can be identified and nurtured. I spent two decades and in the end resigned to do what the boss told me and when I really tried to do what was best last year rewarded with a L4. Replaced by a couple yes man... LOL

Today TSMC, Samsung and Qualcomm and a host of others have rode ARM in the fast lane and passed Intel. Yes Intel servers power the web and are I dispensable and profitable but they are like last century's railroad company. A little late now to have ARM. The biggest joke is they got ARM by buying a company using it in the core. Their separate ARM won't show up till 10nm which is so broken TSMC and Samsung and likely even GF may beat them.

Maybe Intel will survive but more likely than not to go the way of Zilog or Motorola as CRB, PSO and the stupidest of the three BK lead Intel to ruin.

BK a BS fronmSan Jose State who rose to leadership leading the factories. You think a technologist or visionary rises from the depths of an FSM factory who with that education and experience... just listen to him on the stage compared to the really smart and brilliant leaders, even Murthy is far more smart. Intel's fate is dark... I feel sad for my many young colleagues trapped there ...

@rny +1! You are spot on!

@jwy I agree with you - spot on. However, it is actually a blessing for the world that Intel did not say yes to Steve Jobs and iPhone processor. The rise of the ARM processor came out of necessity, and those are the very best innovations. Today, ARM is EVERYWHERE, can beat x86 at every level (except server) and are less complicated, more efficient, available for the masses and of course CHEAP. The entire world is benefiting from this. No more Intel domination. No more stranglehold on innovation. No more reliance on Wintel. The future now is brighter than ever from the school kid to the start up, we will see technoloy progress like we have never seen before. Yes it was a blessing. All Intel did was cripple innovation, cripple creativity. Thank the gods those days are Over.

So much for the world leader in leading edge technology!

Intel should have embraced ARM architecture for mobile and other segments 10 or even 5 years ago instead of selling the StrongARM/XScale division over to Marvell back in 2006. That, together with turning down Jobs offer for the iPhone, is proving to be the worst and costliest decision ever, under previous CEO PSO.

However, embracing ARM today is too late and just shows the kind of guessing game strategy and atrocious decision making under our current CEO BK. If this was his plan all along, why didn't he start implementing it 3 years ago after becoming CEO?

Intel could have dominated the ARM ecosystem if it had played its cards right 10 or 5 years ago. Heck, it might have even been in a position to buy ARM itself. Instead, it will be relegated to commodity foundry status at best, as other companies have already become established players in the ARM architecture ecosystem, and the foundries are already challenging TMG in the leading edge nodes.

Intel will become a much smaller company and potentially will be split in the next 2-5 years.