OK, this is a real layoff question. Was Lisa Spelman invited to leave, or did she leave on her own accord? The article says "Spelman, who helped oversee Intel’s data-center business, will step into the new role on Aug. 15, Cornelis said on Thursday."
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Why would any company hire an Intel executive to be their CEO?
Lisa is a nice person, prob too nice in some ways in keeping managers around who can't execute/meet deadlines (PRQ). The problems I think in server (and client) are 1) poor engineering... low product performance, late to market (missing PRQs, multiple tape ins/outs), and bloated designs creating huge product costs; 2) too many finance bean counters counting beans, admiring their work counting beans, patting themselves on the back for counting beans, and holding up the PLC because it takes six months to do an basic ROI/NPV calc; and 3) TMG manufacturing costs being 3-4x more than TSMC, can't seamlessly transition to newer process nodes to improve power and smaller transistors, and low yields due to design and defect densities on ginormous dies.
Meanwhile the other geniuses who oversaw the decline of the Xeon franchise continue to do more damage in revamped roles.
Article missed out a word:
"Spelman, who helped oversee decline of Intel’s data-center business, will step into the new role on Aug. 15, Cornelis said on Thursday."
She was pushed out by Justin in the DCAI staff reorg. He made her “interim” and told her clearly she was out.
Any y’all ever work with her? If you did, I don’t need to say anything more.
Managers just out for themselves while nvidia has multimillionaire RCG club
tell me we're sc--wed without telling we sc--wed
The official announcement said she made a difficult decision to leave. I guess it’s difficult to let go her hefty Intel compensation, after sc--wing up so many years.
"These are the kinds of people running Intel.
No clue to what engineering is or how to achieve big and complex goals in a domain where you need decades of experience."
And they don't do much but get paid a lot for some reason.
According to these Intel "leaders"...
Engineers are interchangeable like parts.
Solving a problem in less time means just hiring more engineers.
These are the kinds of people running Intel.
No clue to what engineering is or how to achieve big and complex goals in a domain where you need decades of experience.
AMD will continue to dominate since their leadership is stacked with hard core engineers.
Instrumental Intel Influentials!
When you consider how big of a lead Xeon blew in the past few years, is it really a mystery what happened?
The better question is, how did someone with a finance/marketing bachelors and no technical background become CVP of Xeon in the first place?
Intel is better off not having a bean counter leading their Server CPU business.....
She was under qualified for the job. I would say she was asked to go