Yesterday Intel fired modem hw veteran and vector processor expert who recently joined from Qualcomm. His assessment of Intel's "school project" and "amateur architecture" was damming. The medicine of excluding the infineon baffoons was too bitter to swallow. After a few months of backstabbing and not much else the political class in Munich have their way. Back to normal 9-5, no weekends, 6 weeks holiday, 1 year paternity and a government style safe job for life. It will end with eggars on their faces.
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Fascinating.
In another decade, CDMA will be mostly gone, then Sprint, USCell and Verizon will let you on their network.
So, if Apple drops you again, they're your only customer. Then what?
@3qwy Yes, you obviously are mentally retarded. The CDMA iPhone 4 came over half a year after the UMTS version. By then, Apple had fixed their antenna design.
And if you had any clue whatsover, you‘d know why Apple dropped Infineon. Had nothing whatsoever to do with the death grip. They had started negotiating with Qualcomm before the iPhone 4 had even been released. If you knew anything about how long phone development cycles take, you could guess that without me telling you that. Idiot. You apparently actually thought Apple changed suppliers less than a year before the release of the 4S. LOL. Pitiful.
And if Apple dropping or picking up products is such a sign of quality in your eyes, then I guess Intel is overtaking Qualcomm right now? No? Does that idiotic argument only work when it matches your opinion? Oh, why do I ask? We already established that you are mentally handicapped.
And I have no idea why your coworkers who „call Germany their birthplace“ (seriously, who writes like that? Are you writing in Hindi and using Google Translate?) drive those car brands. Why do your fellow Indians (sorry... people who call India their birthplace) in Germany all drive BMW? What does this have to do with anything?
"Wow, are you mentally retarded? Apple designed the death grip antenna, not Infineon. Calling it a „virus“ just shows your immense level of technical incompetence."
Yet the CDMA iphone4 had none of these problems.
Apple still dropped you for, how many years?
And why is it that my coworkers, who call Germany their birthplace, drive Infinity, Tesla, and Lexus instead?
Sad, Intel. Sad.
"28GHz and 39GHz"
That would make a horrible replacement for 4G.
@2jmw - Fake news
An excerpt below from RCR Wireless following Qualcomm's 5G modem announcement this week. I can confirm this assessment is accurate and it's why Qualcomm's marketing people are posting on social media in full-on attack mode. They are scared and rightfully so. Intel is doing technical trials with all the same operators that Qualcomm is.
https://www.rcrwireless.com/20171017/chips/qualcomm-vs-intel-the-5g-race-tag4
"While Qualcomm clearly dominates the market for 4G/LTE chipsets, the company is running neck and neck with Intel when it comes to 5G.
“Intel is definitely ready for 5G NR!” said analyst Stéphane Téral, executive director at IHS Markit. “They have been at the forefront of major development since Day 1. They already have a 5G radio frequency front end at 28GHz and 39GHz for the U.S. market that goes live next year as well as a 5G radio frequency integrated circuit transceiver at sub 6GHz for China, Europe, Korea and Japan.”
Intel is a lazy company with idiots running it
@1cal Wow, are you mentally retarded? Apple designed the death grip antenna, not Infineon. Calling it a „virus“ just shows your immense level of technical incompetence.
How unbelievably fcking dumb are people here?
are you payed by Q, how do you know Q one year ahead Intell? There are so many companies on 5G road, and racing.
Fire them all. Q is more than a year ahead in 5G. Intel will never catch up.
People from Munich are still involved? Awesome.
You will always be the company that gave Apple the 4 "death grip" virus.
I love how the Americans always whine about Germans working 9-5. That's why they will never understand why a country with less than one third the population of the US can have a higher export volume. Germans are efficient, so they can afford working shorter work days and still have a higher output than the people at the US and Indian sites.
Funny though how proud you are of working weekends and not having paternity leave. We Germans laugh at you for not having achieved such basic things.
The Intel people who designed the 5G modem are also veterans. But what do veterans know, pfffsst.
At least use arguments that cannot be used against you. Makes you look slightly less retarded.
What do veterans know, especially from the leading 5G company, pfssst!
Not surprised at all. There is a long list of big industry veteran names who "failed" in Intel, although few stayed and many got lost in internal turmoil. In Intel you have to be politically correct or wont last long if they do not sway you to desired view or message or someone will change your message instead of you.
In this case looks like the veteran seemed to had shoot to wider audience without this political sanitation.
Often after letting him go, in a classic way as making him look incompetent, there is short cool off period and then some other hero shall put his name to the original veteran work and run with it in politically accepted ways usually without ever launching a product, but the new name would be promoted and glorified through most colorful power points.
@ids Really? He didn‘t understand how modems in different stages of development have different sizes? Is this the first time he is developing a new modem? Wow. How did that dude get hired in the first place then? Why do we only get the Qualcomm deadwood?
He couldn't understand how you made it 3x bigger
LOL. Dude was too dumb to understand any system other than his „own“, so he said it was a „school project“. Apple has seen every little bit of code and every bit of the architecture of the Intel modem and never said anything like that.
Just goes to show that the good old Qualcomm arrogance doesn‘t get you all that far when you are expected to think outside of your little box.