Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Has any company spent so much and failed at everything

Self-driving cars
Intel Health Services
The “Security Pillar” (McAfee and beyond)
Intel TV (OnCue)
Intel Studios (our Hollywood exploratory)

@1jah, haven't NGC team been poking around pretty the same exhumed transmeta stuff for a decade before? Should I mention moonrun, ruby, opal, jade?
How did NVidia (in the end partially) succeed with the same technology and deliver real world products in _AUTOMOTIVE_ with this kind of technology? Should I mention NVIDIA employed the team Intel fired in 2016?
Should I even mention that the acquired company you're talking about managed to tape in 2 chips, while intel did _0_.

Haven't seen this "Project Gladius" thing being trumped up on Circuit in a while. Anyone knows if that's already on its way to this list?

Makers and Innovators Group (MIG)
Joule
Arduino
Edison

Intel invented the technical assistant system but let it become a shambolic and corrupt political clown show.

Intel Create and Share Camera, another consumer product that ended up in the landfill.

Hilarious — I remember Anand Chandrasekher. For a year or two, every month you would see his picture on Circuit holding up a phone from a dog and pony show somewhere. And nothing ever came of it.

Maybe the problem is not Intel leadership, be it BK or BS or PAT. None of them succeeded. Why? Maybe the problem is company as a whole and it is not fixable! Just chop it off into pieces and maybe new leaders have a fair chance of success then.

Meego triggered me. First Intel tries ARM and fails (DEC StrongARM acquisition and VP Ron Smith failure to deliver). Followed by Intel dumping it all circa 08. Later, Intel tries to repurpose IA for phones. Remember Anand Chandrasekher? He was another Andy Groove TA.

Anyway, Anand is put in charge of winning phones with IA silicon. Good luck. Nokia is on massive decline and Intel and Nokia team up to do Meego. Mind you android and Apple were already hugely successful with their phone o.s.'s. Nokia failed in a massive crash and burn and was sold to Microsoft in 2013. Anand left Intel and went to Qualcomm to try and beat Intel in servers. That failed as well.

This helps gives a bit more context for the utter failure in getting out of IA jail in the PC space. Bad strategy, no staying power, putting people in charge that are inept. Where does it end?

This thread turned into a book and morphed into a "song"

OMG so many I’ve heard about and so many I had to Google, wow what a list of total failures.

How could such failures happen at such a great company?

Is Quark still going?

Next Gen Core, aka NGC. Intel bought a company founded by a former Intel Folsom engineer, now an AXG fellow. NGC boasted low power CPU to replace Core. The whole Oregon CPU arch team and many design engineers were working on it until Jim Keller pulled the trigger. Its idea is similar to Transmeta. That AXG fellow is a bozo, who can sell snake oil only to other bozos like RK, but not to experts like JimK.

@1rsm Maybe. They were both terrible. I thought that the board hired Murthy and hung it over BK, making him act erratically? The threat of a two in the box situation. It seemed foundry circa 2015 didn't die, but was ki---d? Decision to pivot away from main/core business made no sense.

Brian K’s hiring Murthy man was the worst thing he ever did and led directly to Intel’s downfall. You can trace everything back to that. BK sealed our doom. It is really that simple.

Team Apple failed pretty hard to the point that Intel was dumped for Apple silicon.

Nobody mentioned AGX and the ARC GPU disaster?

Wow oh wow now what a company and legacy of incompetence that will outshine every other company in tech history.

Craig, Paul, BK, Bob, and Pat should be so ashamed as all the executives of the past twenty years of their legacy. So sad for Bob, Gordon and Andy.

I am very surprised that perceptual computing is not in the list.

Bulemic employee resource management — It’s not just now. Intel has a history of binge hiring and large scale purges. There’s either a complete inability to forecast business cycles or the binge/purge operations are intentional, allowing them to fire the old (expensive) and hire cheap (young and/or overseas workers).

We can simply the list into categories of failure such as:

• any software product
• any direct to consumer product
• any wireless product
• any silicon product that is used in a product that isn't a PC or able to run windows
• any service business
• any system level product that competes with customers making PCs
• in short, anything that isn't a chipset or processor for a PC desktop, notebook or server.

IA is a goose that laid golden eggs... Intel took all the golden eggs and spent them on d-mb ideas. Meanwhile they forgot to take care of the goose and it got old and withered. Now it only lays half an egg and it is made out of lead.

Now, Intel wants to build the goose a new barn (fab) and let other farmers use the barn to raise more geese. Unfortunately, this will starve the IA goose further. It will become sad.
It will die and the new barn will have to shut down anyway.

@vaw+1jRRcX0B contra revenue article

OMG, did that really happen? It should be a business school case. Intel IA not suitable to low cost tablet, processor and adjacent logic too expensive. Intel 'subsidizes' the extra cost with 'contra revenue' to the customers. It fails anyway. So, lose money on every deal... and make it up with volume?

You can't fix stupid.

(Contra revenue is just fancy term that means rebate. For example, Intel Inside program was 'contra revenue' in that Intel pays PC makers to put the Intel Inside logo on the PC to build the brand. It is 'rebated' off the price of the processors purchased directly or indirectly from the company).

Hiring Qualcomm executives. Murthy, wasted a lot of money on him. Lafefield, tangier, anniedale, broxton, all SOCs not successful.

Prescott, Cibolo, Fortville, Edison, Minnowboard, McAfee acquisition, Itanium 3 a.k.a. Italic.

Don't forget:

• Intel data center hosting services
• Streaming media services
• Intel TV

If Intel had the patience to grow streaming media services they would have beat Netflix, Hulu , and others to a very lucrative market. A lot of businesses listed in this thread could have delivered profits over the years but the OCD/ADHD ELT teams and board of directors don't have a vision or a clue.

Who can forget the billions spent on tablets and contra revenue, another FUBAR beyond belief.

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/21/intel-corps-contra-revenue-strategy-was-a-huge-was.aspx

No one has mentioned smartphones (Outside of the iPhone).

For AI, Intel spent billions on acquiring Nervana, Habana, Movidius ... and developing Ponte Vecchio. None of them is profitable, let alone competing with Nvidia.

Pretty clear no company had such riches provided by x86 monopoly and than squandered so much of it away.

Total failure of leadership, vision and management over the past 15-20 years.

Simply stupefying how big the waste and failure was and the amount of funds squandered in the hundreds of billions.

It’s so disingenuous for the CEO and BoD past and present to say they will use layoffs to save a few billion when they squandered hundreds

IPU (Image Processing Unit) from ICG

Putting ROI next to these projects will show if Intel leadership made the right decisions.

2005 Intel Formula One sponsorship of BWM Sauber.

Deal was done by Eric Kim, the marketing guy who spent a lot of money to get rid of the drop e. By 2010, he was fired.

oneAPI already dead

Intel Doug Davis commissioned Orange County Choppers... What a waste. Intel embedded? not cool.

https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/OCC/occ_hp_intel_chopper.htm

That $20 million makeover of the FM1 Ops Center in the late 90s only to see it emptied out due to offshoring when the tech bubble burst a few years later.

Dang, this is laughable and quite sad at the same time. I guess the laughter makes the sadness more tolerable. I’ll throw in a few Management fads and Intel-unique problems:

Two in a box (aka feather bedding mgmt jobs)
Addictive reliance on consultants (Bain, etc.)
ITIL
Reorgs every 6 months (usually when productivity was emerging)
Poor new project selection/rejection skills
Failure to focus on a few great efforts instead of dozens of middling ones that were doomed

@qso+1jRRcX0B BXT was such a catastrophic failure nobody outside Intel ever heard of it 🤣

Aurora is doomed. Sapphire Rapids is already a failure and it is not even released yet.

Arduino and other maker suite tools, and that
dang Intel Creator game show with BK

Optane is a recent add

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/discontinued-products.html

That Intel revolving 3D presentation of still pix in sports events

Speaking of which — Intel Sports — is that dead yet?

It’s good we made attempts,n