Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

@2hyr+18fnfYVW Hit the nail on the head.

If you can make it doesn’t matter how innovative your design or software is, it is but a virtual project. If it is late is is going to be uncompetitive for performance or cost or both. Without a monopoly you have to compete.

As noted TSMC is agnostic and offers a everything one needs to make leadership products. Only look at what AMD and Nvidia are doing on 7nm and Apple doing with A14 and M1 on 5nm.

TMG is the key as well as the Achilles heel. They have spent more money on RD and have gone from one generation ahead to two generations behind, they have the full talent of all the US universities and diversity and have failed miserable and now are behind, lack scale, but they do have money and diversity and a broken spirit, don’t give them nor Intel much hope to recover

Key problem is semiconductor manufacturing.

Without losing to TSMC, how can so many competitors suddenly emerge? TSMC acts as a virtual manufacturing department of many.

Without diversity, TSMC is mostly ethnic Chinese in Taiwan.

Without political correctness, TSMC doesn't actively promote social agenda.

It focus on technologies with good leadership in manufacturing. Many of them are US citizens.

Intel's manufacturing R&D leadership is very very poor.

Intel is a complex with many parts, like a huge tree with a sprawling root system.

The rot runs deep and wide thru the system in all functional areas due to poor leadership and focus on culture and real ethics and performance for the last decade.

It would be hard enough for a insider who’s is technical savvy with vision and knowledge of the complex system to fix the rot. For someone like a non technical bean counter with no history is beyond ludicrous and for the BoD to think that the CEO and senior executives can do it is like believing zebra can change its stripes.

FUBAR if I ever saw one

just no not working under Bob Swan he is making double digit million dollars while us get paid cheap. I wont work a slave under Bob Swan because he isnt a technical CEO so wont deserve it

IoTG. TL / JJ / CB

lets name some sh–bag fellows too

AN and WG

AG and SC

Lets list some names?
Who are the garbage VPs?

@lyl+18fnfYVW

This. I know of a couple sh– grade VP that Keller tried to get rid of, and they simply scurried off to some other org. Rats, snakes and roaches everywhere.

Not only is there not a vision, but Bob doesn't even see that there is a problem. Jim Keller was the only person who really got it, but in grand Intel tradition, outsiders are never given a chance. These old managers are set in their old ways and will never change. And there are just way too many of them.

I’m the original OP, thanks for the repost.

I think it has to start with visionary senior management. That’s how you get a company all rowing in the same direction. Intel is in the typical trap of a middle aged industrial company. Right now there are too many fiefdoms ruled over by bureaucratic minds, doing things the way they’ve been used to for years, and resistant to real change. And I don’t think Bob or quite frankly anyone near the top of the company is ballsy enough or even smart enough to make wholesale strategy changes and force them upon an unwilling bureaucratic class. The problem is, when you’re not willing to disrupt your own company, you instead get disrupted by TSMC, AMD, NVIDIA, Samsung, Apple, and whoever is coming after them.

In fact OP just identified what is needed to start getting Intel back on track. A massive purge of the grossly overstaffed and ineffective middle management. That alone won't fix it, but nothing else will work until that step is done.