Maybe Intel just needs a Taiwanese CEO? ; )

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    2 months ago

    Honestly the article is bullshit. It’s right, but for all the wrong reasons. Intel isn’t failing because it failed to buy OpenAI or partner with Apple. Intel is failing because they’ve made shit design decisions on their chips, sat on their laurels when they were riding high and just raised prices (giving up the engineering lead to AMD and TSMC), and then utterly fumbled the responses to multiple public failures when things started to go down hill.

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      2 months ago

      They’ve also taken the technology basically as far as it can go.

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        2 months ago

        A sentence made out of fluff. What technology? AMD took x86 and gave it wings, better efficiency, neither is only negligible iterative improvements. Intel failed to use lower nm nodes as a first fail.

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    2 months ago

    generative AI, which OpenAI released to the world in 2022

    What‽ We’ve only been dealing with this shit for 2 years‽ Fuck it feels like 5 LMAO

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      With 30% ownership it could have been at the forefront of generative AI, which OpenAI released to the world in 2022.

      Do they think openai invented the concept of generative ai, because that’s what their statement implies?

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        2 months ago

        Just like musk built the first Tesla in a cave with some scraps. 🙄

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          2 months ago

          Building an electric motor and powerful battery was the easy bit. To this day, it remains a mystery how he sourced the 10,000 plastic clips that hold a Tesla together.

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        Even if they do think that Open AI invented generative AI, that sentence makes no sense. GPT-1 was released in 2018.

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      2 months ago

      hopefully the bubble bursts soon enough so we’ll never have to learn how does it feel to deal with it for five years.

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    2 months ago

    Put the newest intern in charge for a year. They couldn’t do much worse than the last 4 CEOs, and would be much cheaper.

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    I already felt this way about intel when they hired fucking Will.I.Am to be spokesperson. He made more money in a month than most of their engineers in a year. That was a decade ago. It’s only been downhill since. I hope they go fully bankrupt at this point and someone worthy can take over the patents.

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    If Intel said yes to Apple, it would have just made Apple a failure. They’ve done a shit job at mobile chips for years, and never would have given Apple the control that has led to Apple being at the forefront of the mobile market. (And don’t have the advanced nodes Apple is taking the lions share of either).

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    Four bad CEOs is like a grade school level of analysis. You can spend half an hour on Wikipedia and come up with like 18 other patterns that connect the companies.

    Do you really think Warren Buffett (or any other serious investor or business analyst), is sitting there counting out the number of bad CEOs on their fingers when making an investment decision?

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    I just know I don’t like Pat Gelsinger’s over confident bragging style, it seems dishonest. His claim of winning back Apple was ridiculous, Intel was so far behind what Apple was doing with the M1 it wasn’t even funny. And they are even further behind now, than they were then!
    Whether he succeeds remains to be seen, but it’s not looking good.

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      Maybe you’re right about Gelsinger. I’ve seen him spew BS but figured he does it because he has to, that Intel has been fundamentally broken for decades, and that he was as a good a CEO choice as they could have made.

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        he was as a good a CEO choice as they could have made.

        I’m not so sure, with the scandals of crashing Intel CPU’s we have now, both their CPU line and their production is getting extremely poor PR.
        I suspect Gelsinger pushed unfinished products, because he is desperate for results, and now Intel seems worse off than when he took over reputation wise. Gelsinger is losing both money and PR value on 2 fronts for Intel now.

        Intel used to have a pretty stellar reputation for reliability, especially in the server market. It seems to me they have little left to build on now.

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    2 months ago

    Something something history repeats itself as farce or something

    For context: Intel was founded by people who thought Fairchild Semiconductors wasn’t receiving the necessary funding or respect from the owning company.