@1gqs you are in a division that loses $2,500,000,000 a year under a boss that has destroyed more shareholder capital than anyone in the history of Intel. And you think your job is safe?
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@wxi Are you some Qualcomm shill or one of those incompetent lazy idiots in the Intel processor business units that squandered Intel's process leadership? Either way, my job is far safer than yours.
@ypy 50% of you will be fired by the end of the year. You should watch Aicha talks this year. She's trying to prepare you for the pain imbecile
What for? The business unit is performing as expected. Nobody ever seriously thought it would ever produce a profit on its own, but it will always be a technology to bundle with other things to create something more valuable. BMW also doesn't make any money from its car doors department, but selling cars without doors would be difficult.
And what is the result of the mobile success? Qualcomm is so freakishly scared that they actually paid that dude from CellularInsights to create a fake test that was tailored towards making Intel modems look bad, when everyone in the business could immediately see that the tests had no real-world applicability, as the used base station configuration does not exist in any network. The customer is quite aware of that fact and apparently indicated to Qualcomm management that they are not happy about this.
The mobile business is actually one of the few BUs that are successful within the given parameters. They should rather ACT the processor guys who actually fell behind in process technology. It's their fault that Intel modems still run on ARM, because Intel processors are too inefficient for modems. Their processors are still too inefficient for real low-power IOT solutions (so they act like "automotive" includes "IOT", or else Intel would be practically non-existent in IOT). Want to fire useless people? Then get rid of the people who turned Intel into what Nokia was exactly 10 years ago.