Too Good to Lose: America's Stake in Intel

cheema33 a day ago | next |

I worked at Intel for about 7 years. It is unbelievable how many terrible mistakes Intel made to get here. All that damage is self-inflicted and it was very clear to most of us who worked there. Leadership was extremely incompetent starting from Paul Otellini in the 2000s.

shiroiushi a day ago | root | parent | next |

I was there too, but the incompetent leadership started at least from Craig Barrett, before Otellini took over. Barrett, as I recall, was the idiot who drove the RAMBUS association, the Netburst/P4 architecture, continued to push EMT64 instead of developing x86/64 until AMD forced him, and continued with Itanic. He also tried to get Intel involved in the consumer space with silly stuff like keyboards, mice, and crappy digital cameras.

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought Otellini was the one who rescued Intel by pushing the new "Core" CPUs when the P4 architecture was clearly a failure.

In your opinion, should the government be trying to save the fabs or is it a losing battle against the inevitable collapse?

C0d3G4rd a day ago | root | parent | prev |

In your opinion, what mistakes were made?

osnium123 a day ago | root | parent |

Stock buybacks is a big mistake. Giving up on foundry efforts was another one. Intel’s 10 nm debacle was a third mistake.

osnium123 2 days ago | prev |

What think tanks closely affiliated with the establishment think about Intel.