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Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

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Re: Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

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Post by whatshisface »

hammock wrote: post #4
wiremine wrote: post #2

I've been reading "Measure What Matters" by John Doerr, which outlines Objectives and Key Results, a concept heavily influenced (invented?) by Andy Grove. Would be interesting to hear from someone who knows if Intel still uses OKRs, and if their long-term usage contributed to the current "toxic culture". I really like OKRs as a concept, just wondering what long-term usage looks like, and what the downsides are. Or ma…

Google uses OKRs (they took it from Intel). Not sure why I'm being downvoted http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-ranking-system-okr-20...

I think it's really funny that OKR grades are public but ostensibly not used for promotions... Everything associated with you gets entered in to people's brains, and they draw from it when evaluating you whether it's in the policy to do so or not.

Re: Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

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Post by dbuder »

Intel is so big that they need 3 CEOs and one of them has to be a silicon genius. That a company with so much talent can't bring dynamic products to market is a tragedy for the American economy. x86 doesn't need to die it just doesn't HAVE to be the only future.

Re: Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

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Post by slivym »

Aloha wrote: post #50
mirceal wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At a big corporation, like Intel, we cannot really talk about just one culture. I would say that your experience can vary quite a lot based on the team you’re in and to a certain degree the org you’re in. Various people assign the ‘toxic’ label to various things. What may be ‘meh’ for one person could be ‘toxic’ to another. Also: Mandatory HR is not your friend reminder. HR is there and it’s trained to protect the co…

HR can be your friend, when the interest of the company, and your interest happen to align, which in my experience is more often than not. But its important to recognize, that HR is only to your benefit, when interests align, the OP is right, that HR is not there to protect you, but to protect the company, sometimes protecting you however, is protecting the company as well.

I really don't think that's the definition of a friend.

Re: Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

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Post by lmm »

ShabbosGoy wrote: post #68
lmm wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Communication is a two-way street. A word becomes meaningful when the recipient is able to understand the author through it; if there is no such consensus, then the word can't be said to mean anything.

A word is simply a shared reference to a concept. The consensus is around whether or not that reference is valid anymore. Here’s a concrete example: “citizen” meant something completely different 100 years ago. At that time it meant “member of the set of landowners”, which resolved to “white male landowner”. Now the concept of citizen is much different and a lot more contentious.

"citizen" is meaningful because people do have a shared understanding of its meaning - people who are arguing about who is and isn't a citizen are still agreeing about what a citizen is. This article doesn't seem to be claiming that the culture at Intel has the aspects that people normally refer to when they say "toxic culture", it's trying to express something different - there's no factual disagreement, only a semantic one, which means the word has failed to convey meaning.

Re: Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

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Post by ksec »

In an organisation like Intel, how much fight is needed for a new CEO to break the Company into three, Intel Foundry, Intel Silicon, and Intel IP, along with Intel Holding being the holding company?

Intel Silicon will continue to produce the best in class x86 chip, from Desktop, Server, Notebook to Modem, FPGA, GPGPU and Network processor. And Storage like Optane and SSD.

Intel Foundry will focus to be the best Foundry on the planet. Not only just tech and yield, but also the ecosystem around it; from tools to libraries.

Intel IP will allow customers to use Intel's IP to fab their custom solution in Intel Foundry. x86 Core, 5G Modem, WiFi, Bluetooth, Network Processor, Memory controller, GPU, every building block Intel uses for Intel silicon. To be make to anything from SoC for PS5, Xbox with CPU and GPU, to Mobile SoC using ARM CPU + Intel Modem.

Re: Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

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Post by NCWV »

privacypoller wrote: post #52
ihsw2 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not how language works. Words and terms have meaning, you can't just make stuff up and say "languages evolve/everything is subjective/use whatever phrase you want whenever you want."

and then in the same breath state this is "adopting a more precise definition of the term". These comments are like arguing with my six year old.

We bow to your superior intellect!

Re: Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

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Post by belorn »

ben509 wrote: post #13
kanox wrote: post #5

WTF does "toxic culture" even mean, other than clickbait? Some people seems to use this as meaning "anti-social" or "excessively aggressive" but the word only appears in the article as "toxic fixation on margins" where it's equivalent to "harmful". The gist of the article seems to be that Intel lost in the mobile space because it refused to chase opportunities with lower margins. But decisions regarding such deals ar…

"Toxic" is one of those terms like "problematic" that rely on in-group knowledge to understand. I've often heard it in reference to masculinity; often used by feminists who have a more concrete definition in mind. And, sure you can look at any violent crime stats to see masculinity has its problems, but instead of the more reasonable claim they're making a very nasty one that's indefensible. Allusions to people being…

To say that masculinity has a problem because of violent crime statistics is identical to say that femininity has a problem because of eat disorder statistics.

Correlating statistics is useful when looking for potential causes in a large space of unknowns, but horrible when misused as evidence to justify a negative label on a category of people. Its not an olive branch for peace.

Re: Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

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Post by bluGill »

samfisher83 wrote: post #95
bluGill wrote: post #92

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The problem is we are forecasting the future. Today Intel makes better product that their mobile competitors. However those competitors are making their product better and better all the time. Already companies are starting to look at those cheaper mobile CPUs and ask if they are good enough, some are answering yes, and there are signs that more will in the future. For a long time intel could hold all this off - sure…

If they did go make mobile chips what is their value proposition? How are they any different than any other chip maker. Qcom has its modem what does Intel have? They have generated 50 billion in cash over the last 5 years. Let the shareholders pick who they want to invest in.

If they don't make mobile chips what is their value proposition? They used to be on the forefront of what manufacturing could do and thus the fastest. However everyone is running into limits of physics, meaning their competitors are catching up.

Can they find a next step? I don't know. I'd benefit if they do (faster CPUs would help me), but if they can't I benefit as well (I switch to cheaper mobile chips that are just as fast)

Re: Who wants to be Intel’s new CEO?

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Post by pohl »

dismantlethesun wrote: post #94
pohl wrote: post #9

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"Toxic" in this context just means negative or harmful. There are many ways in which something can be negative or harmful, not just one.

Anyone who uses toxic in this way is just going to look silly.

It's been used this way in the English language since the mid 17th century.
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