Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

Maybe not exactly a tipping point, but the Larrabee project has caused bad consequences to this day. Not just billions of dollars burned, and still burning for Xeon Phi, all client and mobile SoC's are now victims of poor integrated graphics. We have two best arch and design teams (IDC and PDX) working on CPU tick-and-tock, and one single 2nd rate team, even more entrenched and territorial after Larrabee, to deliver 2nd rate graphics to every client and mobile products. This just shows how poor the management is, in term of technical judgement and efficiency on fixing problems.

One of the tipping points must be when Bain was hired in 2006 for SET and never left.

They are useless and on top of it, they have become a political force internally to keep their Intel account year after year. Show me one leading tech company that engages with a consultant company as we engage with Bain and they still lead. We can never improve our business, strategy and people because then we will not need Bain. But also, all of our confidential info I.e. road maps everything is known by Bain, and eventually other Bain clients.

All of the below are correct. There are so many it is hard to count.

The $2 billion spend on IOS wasn't the issue. It was the decision to get out of the business that was the tuning point indicator. This could have been a $9 bil/yr business ala AWS. That is unless all you smart engineers aren't as smart as you claim.

Tipping point past, just like the rotary phone, a dinosaur.

Intel Client activity will be toast by 2021.

Infliction point was when the process for getting a PE status was established.

It has made it beneficial to lie, steal and stab in the back among the engineering core.

Things started to go to Hell the year Gorden Moore overruled Andy Grove and appointed Craig Barrett as CEO. Then Craig brought in his political correctness management.

Who is John Galt?

PSO allowed Renee to run amok.

Don't forget mcafee was under his watch.

No, Intel needs new blood from outside.

This will never happen as the corporate antibodies will kill any outsider. Murthy is the most capable guy to become CEO but this will NEVER happen. Watch and see him take a golden parachute in a year or two.

bring back dadi or even PSO

PSO missed mobile but gave the company tick-tock while BK flops from failure to failure while giving himself giant raises

Letting fister get away and kicking gelsinger to the curb and eventually replacing both with a series of yes men and women with plenty of hubris but highly limited technical skills. This is when perception management started to trump results orientation earnest. Or one could argue that began when the visionary leadership team for p6 was kicked to the curb. Perhaps the final straw is kirk first being asked to move from server to client then rewarding him with a bone in the back. Many dubious moves over the years.

Lest not forget the Digital Home Fiasco's...

Eric Kim, Eric Huggers..

ViiV, GoogleTV, Sony partnership?,

Intel IPTV sold off to Verizon...etc etc

it is all started around 2003 when Intel started hiring village idiots now known as PHDs, people that have no human skills, cannot find a girlfriend but now ruling on all levels at Intel.

Many many steps -- spending ~2 billion on Intel online services, selling XScale to Marvell instead of leveraging ARM as a low-power mobile platform, Craig Barrett's failed acquisitions, McAfee, passing on the iPhone opportunity, assuming that mobility's end-all was a Centrino laptop, the downward spiral of Focal from an annoyance (but with checks and balances) to a completely subjective crony-friendly mess, acting as if the server market monopoly will last, promoting BK, pursuing IOT and then giving up soon after, promoting Aicha despite the latest mobility flop, hiring Murthy, the misguided (and Jessie Jackson-coerced) diversity program, the stealth layoff of 2015, the perpwalk layoffs of ACT I.

@NWAfTg1-pdw What was PSO's exact words, we won't make any money on that.

Now look at TSMC and the size and scale of their factories and the rise of their stock the past 10 years.

Intel would be a totally different company if the executives could think outside or their arrogant myopic x86 world. Today it still poisons all strategy and execution. Call it the innovators delema!

Tipping point has passed for Intel, designed to follow Kodak, Motorola, Blackberry and Nokia. It will be a spectacular 5 year decline