Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

BK and PG. Both unable to see the big picture and unable to adapt to a changing industry.

Worked under most of them. Pains me to say but a lot of the blame can be laid at Grove's feet. His practice of focusing on promoting non-technical talent and fast tracking TA's to Exec staff had significant negative long term ramifications IMO.

HR also should be held responsible. They destroyed Intel's culture and drove out a lot of incredible technical talent.

BK. The mafia boss.... mohsen fazlian his mafia soldier is still around..

BK, no other choice

BK. He owns the EUV disaster. Pay back that fat salary Brian! It's not too late to do the right thing.

BK by a long shot. They all had flaws and made mistakes, but BK was by far the worst.

BK.
The only area he was competent was eliminating any potential successors.

Anyone not selecting BK doesn't have enough info to be answering this question. I have been here since Grove. Every CEO did something wrong, but there's a difference between missteps and flat out negligence. PSO wanted to change the business in positive ways but was hamstrung by the powerful technical leaders. BK flat out milked the cash cow until the cow was on life support. BS was just palliative care for the cow. PG is like a guy with one shovel following a parade of a million horses... there's no overcoming the accumulation of sh*t. CB was OK operationally but wasted so much money on hare-brained acquisitions... Intel had no coherent business strategy or plan to guide those acquisitions.

B K

Only the Paranoid Survived !
Inflection - Reflection in the Mirror Point !
x86 legacy gone with the wind !
NVidia wins the horse races for the next 8 Qtrs ! Intel AMD ARM Samsung Qualcomm all in a distant last place !
NVidia got off its azz and innovated and marketed CPU GPU NPU server and customer computing ! Line change or be gone !

First past time CEO Otellini : INTC stocks dropped from $145 high to $12 low during his tenure ( > 90% ) at some points
Second runner up current CEO Pat INTC stocks dropped from $60 high to current $20 low ( > 67% ) at the moment and will claim the title if INTC stock goes below $5 a share.

Otellini - the miss on mobile with Apple; needed to switch architecture to ARM was the beginning on this decline. I remember someone who bought a Lenovo with a X86 processor. The phone was so hot you could hardly hold it.

Worked under all but Noyce and Moore. BK for sure gets my vote.

PSO just plain stupid in daylight

But Pat will be known forever as the man who destroyed Intel. The sooner he accepts this the better.

First worse award:

Barrett spent big money like a drunken sailor on shore leave, on any Technology company that Intel might be able to use. Then he either replaced their successful management with Intel management, or subverted original managers to Intel VPs. When the businesses eventually failed Intel sold the assets off at fire sale prices.

Second worst award:
BK because he treated everything Intel like a Fab. Peter principle personified.

BK hands down.

Andy was the St-lin. The rest follow the Soviet story.

After Andy Grove, rest of the pack didn't foresee what was to come and act on it. As long as the PC cash cow was rolling out with a predictable refresh cycle, things were ok. The contrarian thought to another architecture wasn't encouraged. It was always a manufacturing company first and that attitude percolated. However, the technological leap over time became more and more difficult and the culture of innovation with a sense of urgency did not continue which is why Intel is where it is today. The continuous slips with the toxic culture led to the decline rapidly.

To @OP
https://www.tekinsil.com/SemiconductorsBill/US_Semiconductor_Bill.html

Gotta go with BK but I think the rot started under Paul

But we can all agree Pat is the s-xiest!

BK

PG without a doubt.
He is spending Intel into oblivion on fabs that nobody wants. He’s building a bridge to nowhere and taking Intel down with him and his megamaniacal ego where he actually thinks he’s the savior of western civilization.

At least the priors had the sense to keep enough financial cushion to survive and fight. Yes, even BK and BS.

Every single one of them after Grove su-ked. Otelline su-king the least. Very little to no vision.

That said however a lot of employees today would quit under Grove. Bring back the late list, the 10% solution, he-l people freak out with RTO today.

Andy Bryant. He was never the king , but sh---y king maker.

All of them!

BK. Had BK never been promoted, the company had a chance.

Craig R. Barrett. When he became CEO. The original Intel culture began to be erased and replaced by corporate wanks.

BK. The death spiral started on his watch.

Before PG: $61.81
After PG: $20.47

'Nuff said.