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Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown
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Re: Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown
#22Hopefully for them that includes executives and managers, they are the ones responsible of the death of that company, not the engineers
Congrats to Apple and AMD for having done better
Microsoft ignoring AMD in their latest Surface lineup is a hint for the people looking for answers
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#23I worked at Intel and it kicked off my career. I believe putting a Cfo in charge of a company will lead to this. I wonder if apple will ever end up in the same situation
>I believe putting a Cfo in charge of a company will lead to this.
That sounds like what happened to Boeing.
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#24I love how the PC market slowdown is being headlined as causal when Intel has clearly done this to themselves. Maybe if Apple's products were still "Intel Inside" Intel wouldn't be in this position.
And ‘people not at home’? What does that even mean? People take their laptops to coffee shops? But so what?
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#26Whoa that's a lot of people.
The financialization of the global economy has been disaster of boom bust cycles that destroys the mental health of the population.
Re: Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown
#27I love how the PC market slowdown is being headlined as causal when Intel has clearly done this to themselves. Maybe if Apple's products were still "Intel Inside" Intel wouldn't be in this position.
I asked an Intel chip designer more than 10 years ago why they were not prioritizing mobile chips. He didn't have a good answer. It has been obvious for so long that everything was moving to phones, tablets, etc. The fact that Intel has no foot at all in that door is astonishing to me.
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#28Damn, that's a lot of people. Wow.
I made a mistake here.
I no longer stand fully by that statement.
For details, consider my later reply.
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It is. The article does not say where this will occur.
They cannot lay off people from the EU like that. It's not that easy. Unlike the US, EU countries are welfare states.
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#29Damn, that's a lot of people. Wow.
And the effect gets multiplied - all of them have a family, buy products, hire services etc.
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#30Isn't this just a culmination of nearly a decade of unforced errors and mismanaged strategy? I'm a complete outsider but I see a couple of fundamental huge misses by Intel over the past 10 or so years:
1) Completely missed the boat on mobile. Their ARM-competitive chips (Atom, etc.)... weren't. Missed on every measure from power to performance. Let Qualcomm and Samsung eat their lunch.
2) Missed too many ticks and replaced them with tocks. Fell far behind because of ridiculous tilt-at-windmill folly around Itanium and other architectural decisions that absolutely didn't pay off. Ended up taking way too long to get further down on process size.
3) Lost their competitive edge so much that Apple finally realized they can do it better and suffer the transitional costs of building a middleware layer to translate off of x86. Apple's fully committed to that, so Intel doesn't just lose the "no one is using a PC anymore" market, they're also losing the "those people who DO use home computers which happen to be Apples" market.
It's absolutely incredible to watch these formerly phenomenally innovative companies falter at that very core competency of staying cutting edge but we see it happen over and over again.