Seriously, every time I look, there's another AMD product beating our equivalent by a mile.
When exactly did we become second fiddle to AMD? Am I the only one who finds that fact so incredibly sad, considering that we used to be at least five levels above them?
Intel can't and won't. Intel has a hire for fire policy. When your age and the number of people you know move higher up the barometer than your know-how this is bound to happen. It's not a happy company anymore. No one is devoted to any long term strategy or vision. Everyone is busy scheming, manipulating, back stabbing playing politics either to safeguard their position or to somehow hang in there long enough for stocks to vest (grade 10 and above). Intel is too big to grow. It needs to downsize to 30-40k to be a beast it once was. And it's doable since there are a whole bunch of not so profitable to utter c-ap groups. Intel needs to stop dragging deadweights.
Intel basically disposed of employees over 50, it has lost the experience and talent. What is left is crumbs, cheap labor- inexperienced NCG 's and HB1's that don't want to work. They play on phones, back-stab for focal, go to meetings -blowing themselves to look good on Power-points, brown nose, kiss a-- whatever it takes. Moral is at an all time low, -no one cares. Just show up, collect a paycheck hang out in the am- have coffee @ cafe' free apple then cube- prepare for meeting - 2 hour lunch, gym then go to a meeting in the afternoon, surf internet go home and repeat.
Not this time. The one know how to do it are laid off or left. If still with Intel, they don't care it anymore since Intel does not value them.
Historically speaking, back in the 286-386-486 years, AMD often came out with faster and cheaper CPU equivalents than Intel. The Pentium naming convention finally coincided with higher volume investments to help Intel pull ahead for several years while AMD flailed in Exec management and product rollout. Then Athlon and Athlon-64 appeared, kicking Intel's behind in servers before KS finally got XEON rolling, years late.
AMD is often derided by the press, but they have often been the thorn in Intel's side. This time, Intel can't use their process power to leapfrog, because the foundries are now AHEAD. The game has changed - this time, AMD has a fighting chance.