What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
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Re: What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
#2Link to the video that the article is summarizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiKjzeLco6c
The creator's Twitter can be found here https://twitter.com/FPiednoel
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#3From the article: Piednoel didn’t spare words for Intel’s culture, which he said has changed drastically and promotes MBAs over those with technical prowess.
The current CEO is a finance / MBA type, so it's no surprise that the current culture favors that.
In Intel's defense, the previous CEO was a process engineer. But, unfortunately, he couldn't keep his weiner in his pants. He also was probably the wrong choice as CEO since, under his watch, Intel process development apparently went to shit.
Oh, well. Intel was a great company for many years. Perhaps it will reinvent itself.
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#4From the article: Piednoel didn’t spare words for Intel’s culture, which he said has changed drastically and promotes MBAs over those with technical prowess. The current CEO is a finance / MBA type, so it's no surprise that the current culture favors that. In Intel's defense, the previous CEO was a process engineer. But, unfortunately, he couldn't keep his weiner in his pants. He also was probably the wrong choice as…
Same thing happened to Boeing, didn't turn out well
Re: What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
#5So Linus, and this guy is saying AVX512 was a bad idea.
"“The state of software out there is really not favoring going larger vectors,” Piednoel said in the video. “In fact, you can see clearly in Cinebench for example—that is not one of my favorite benchmarks, especially for a laptop where it doesn’t make any sense—but you can see that AMD is winning the battle of throughput. It’s because they have more cores and they can afford to have more cores.”"
But in other places I've seen a lot of hype for it but without much discussion on actual use cases.
With now people saying that it isn't useful except to give intel leadership in benchmarks.
Is anyone here actually using it and seeing a benefit?
Re: What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
#6From the article: Piednoel didn’t spare words for Intel’s culture, which he said has changed drastically and promotes MBAs over those with technical prowess. The current CEO is a finance / MBA type, so it's no surprise that the current culture favors that. In Intel's defense, the previous CEO was a process engineer. But, unfortunately, he couldn't keep his weiner in his pants. He also was probably the wrong choice as…
The previous CEO, who was a process engineer, was the one who brought the current CEO to Intel. It is widely believed the reasons for his firing were merely a pretext - they felt he was performing poorly and wanted to find an excuse to get rid of him. His focus definitely wasn't on CPUs - just look at all the acquisitions under his watch, and the focus away from CPUs into everything else (AI, autonomous vehicles, etc).
He also sold all the stock he conceivably could during his tenure: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/intel-ceo-reportedly-sold-sh...
Re: What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
#7Link to the video that the article is summarizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiKjzeLco6c The creator's Twitter can be found here https://twitter.com/FPiednoel
https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/1290874265705697280?s=1...
Looks like his video is him promoting himself to investors to try to get himself on the Intel board of directors.
Re: What's wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer unloads
#8From the article: Piednoel didn’t spare words for Intel’s culture, which he said has changed drastically and promotes MBAs over those with technical prowess. The current CEO is a finance / MBA type, so it's no surprise that the current culture favors that. In Intel's defense, the previous CEO was a process engineer. But, unfortunately, he couldn't keep his weiner in his pants. He also was probably the wrong choice as…
As somebody noted, when you have cornered a large part of the market, you don't feel as much technical pressure, and success in selling becomes key. So sales and MBAs start to run the show, because it makes the business sense, and while doing so risk to lose the sight of the technological advances that made the dominant position possible.
Intel's founder, Andy Grove, used to say: "Only the paranoid survive". (He personally survived under a false identity in Nazi-occupied Hungary.) I'm afraid Intel had stopped being paranoid enough before it started to stumble more and more seriously.
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#9Link to the video that the article is summarizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiKjzeLco6c The creator's Twitter can be found here https://twitter.com/FPiednoel
https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/1290874265705697280?s=1... Looks like his video is him promoting himself to investors to try to get himself on the Intel board of directors.
That seems a bit wacky to be fair.
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