I don't want to hear about mica bracelets or toothbrushes for the mentally retarded.
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"It's not only about the product, but the overall service and customer satisfaction. Intel foundry was a great idea, but poorly executed. They didn't take the time to understand customer needs and adapt, plain arrogance killed the project that could have saved Intel."
It's not only about the product, but the overall service and customer satisfaction. Intel foundry was a great idea, but poorly executed. They didn't take the time to understand customer needs and adapt, plain arrogance killed the project that could have saved Intel.
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Nothing new huh?
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Seriously if you can't figure out what they should do then you are an idiot. I had a great conversation with several CEOs about what intel prospects look like and they agreed, and they don't even have a clue to how bad 10nm is, LOL
@iqiy - you forgot cloud servers.
And the Fog. That thick, terrifying Fog.
No new ideas seen here LOL!
Intel seems to have the best idea yet
IoT
NVM
FPGA
IOT enabled sex doll.
This is the wrong question.
Imagine asking the same question to Apple in 2004 and getting the answer "a smart phone."
Kinda meaningless without lots of other corporate characteristics to deliver a game changer (for several generations of products).
Intel has been so addicted to the x86 monopoly crack to the point it has ignored what people really wanted....Smartphones, mobile, foundry, etc. As others say, now is too late. The once tech giant Intel has been hurt with arrogant and incompetent leaders. Intel is unable to deliver NEW things.
Good one.
Warren Buffet has a stake in BYD. Intel should be researching this - but of course - they aren't.
You and the 12 other people on earth that want this aren't going to move the needle.
Burritos. Look what Chipotle stock went up to at its high ($759 and that's for making freaking burritos!)
Granted, it tanked with the e.coli issue... but still went up pretty dang high for making burritos. So our chips have a heating or other issue and it tanks big time like they did... Chipotle is STILL $418 a share!!!
What I would like is a little mobile computer. At about the size of an iPhone 5s, it can run Windows 10. A real computer: 2-4 cores, 16 GB DRAM, and a 320 GB SSD.
On battery, it runs at low frequency - but fast enough that the system is responsive. When you plug it in, the frequency bumps up. When placed into a docking station, the backplate becomes a heat sink and the frequency can go up to 3-4 GHz. The docking station might even have a faster graphics chip, allowing 4 5K displays to run.
Why not just use an iPhone? You can't program it. It's a walled garden. I want an open system.
It is too late. The best they can do now is milk datacenter. Forget about Mica and Basis and TAG Hauer and RealSense on skateboards. They won't go broke anytime soon, mind you, but will contract unless they can come up with a Jobs-like breakthrough. But then Intel does not do consumer products, remember. A few forays into digital cameras and video conferencing in the 90s, but that's it. Lots and lots of great ideas (first MP3 player, first server farm, first cloud software, first internet TV etc etc) but were counting on others to productize. They are not a consumer product retail business, anymore than IBM is now. They should accept their fate and add value in another footprint. A long long time ago, in the JF3 cafe, I remember a very savvy colleague noticing in a teeny tiny blurb in the newspaper (yes, that long ago), that Apple was looking to design its own silicon for a yet-unnamed new product. I thought, "so what?" Well, it was a big 'so what'--it was for the iPhone, which was to be announced a year later. And now we know PSO made the decision to walk away from providing Apple the silicon it was looking for. But you can't do shoulda/woulda/coulda. As to Moore's Law. It was never really a law. It was Moore's guess on what was possible given the technology of the time and physics. That too may be coming to an end. ARM? Intel had an ARM initiative and sold it off; they were totally committed to IA. Nvidia? Andy admits he wishes he hadn't walked away from that acquisition opportunity. Intel is a legendary, great company. It is going to change and contract and I truly hope it doesn't go the way of some tech giants who are now fossils.
Enable flexible process that enables quick design TO. The fact no foundry has quickly been able to produce products says a lot about intel process compared to real foundries.
Enable new process features and enhancements on 90, 65, 32 and 22nm that can fill the older almost free factories. Much of the worlds semiconductor needs can be fulfilled on older nodes, lots of money intel left on the table for others.
Set the design teams free to select the best fab process for their products. Let competition decide who has best combo of features. This forces TMG and design to really compete.
Get an ARM license and prove to the world intel can actually design a competitive product with real PPAC metrics compared to the rest of the world. Do it in intel process, if it is so good apple and Samsung or the Chinese phone makers would want it!
Frankly CRB and PSO should have done this a long time ago. I believe the boats were burned mutiple timed and those cast from the sinking island will be the only survivors. Those still on the sinking islands are beyond hope and have restorted to canabalism to survive.
The technologist in TMG and design should be fired. They should have seen this disaster coming. Why couldn't they speak up? Because management is so blinded and thus whole culture is poisoned and blinded.
The final fix is a visionary outsider with both technology vision and leadership that can clean house at MCM and possibly harvest the remaining talent and assets. Sadly the names that come to my mind wouldn't need not want to touch this mess that CRB/PSO/BK created.
In ten years a book or maybe many will be written about these three stooges that ruined this once great company.
Foundry and ARM IP
Goddam batteries you morons.
Too late to be asking. Softbank is snapping up ARM.
It's at least 10 years too late for any kind of growth curve at Intel. That ship has sailed. Intel needs to be happy with server and client as it is now and put all R+D into making skynet happen. Massive connectivity and storage. Knights*, xpoint, photonics. BigKook needs to stop píssing in the wind before it gets whacked off.
ARM IP. Buy ARM and ditch x86 for good.
Real Pokeballs with IoT for Pokemon Go Players