It is hard to find another company as good as this. Best salary, best perks, job security and work life balance. Unbeatable. Let’s keep up the good work!
Moore’s Law pushed asides by Morris’ Law
“Without strategy, execution is aimless. Without execution, strategy is useless.” What is Intel’s strategy these days? What is Intel’s execution these days? I remember when Intel used to have a strategy and executed it like tick tock clock... — read more
What a fool believes
https://www.fool.com/amp/investing/2020/12/20/should-you-buy-or-sell-intel-stock-right-now/ We should always be skeptical of analysts' forecasts, but it's tough to ignore Intel's recent missteps. Intel's CEO Bob Swan, the former CFO who took the... — read more
Our bright future together
Intel is heading into a very promising future. So instead of d as spending time here let’s all get back to work and make things even brighter.
HEY buddy, it's THE LAYOFF not Circuit - take your kool-aid and shove it where the sun don't shine
It's absolutely hilarious that some hapless perp is trying to do damage control in a forum populated mostly by people who were betrayed and taken out to dry by this t–d of an amoral corporation
Secret of Intel’s Success
What’s the secret? Some of Intel’s phenomenal successes include the recent launch of optane product, the new cpus and gpus and xpus. How does a company so old achieve so much? What do you think?
Intel should create an OS
Intel has enough capital to create new products. Staying as a hardware manufacturing company and not expanding into services is a bad idea for long time. With all the news floating other companies eating Intel's lunch, I think Intel's portfolio... — read more
SPP
Our last SPP price was $58 so loosing $11 as of today. Wonder how much more stock will drop? We are all bunch of f— ups for stock to drop so much. What would the stock be w/o the buybacks.
I really dig Intel's response to the MS silicon news.
because it made me laugh. "Oh, but we're gonna have new markets an products in AI! WIN WIN WIN!" Yeah except Amazon's making its own AI chips too in servers and Apple has its own AI in its M1, and Intel's own automotive AI... which cars have... — read more
Engine dead, ship taking on water
Swim for your lives
Saboteurs?
Are the people on this page saboteurs from other companies, or do these people actually work here? For the people who work at Intel on this page, does this pessimism, racism, arrogance, etc. show up while you’re at work? While at work, please at... — read more
Intel PE
Are Intel PE s the most worthless PEs out there?
Microsoft is Hiring Silicon Engineers
Just saying...
Silicon Valley ends up ruined like Detroit
Hope Silicon Valley does not become the Detroit of auto-industry. Most of these companies were formed and became giants here in Silicon Valley. They have made billions of money using the talent, education system, young engineers trained by... — read more
Final nail in the Intel's coffin
INTC down another 6% on the news https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/microsoft-msft-is-designing-its-own-chips-in-move-away-from-intel-intc
Google opening up Chrome OS will greatly extend life of aging PCs and reduce need for new PCs
Google owning Neverware (Cloudready) means any PC would be able to install Chrome OS as an officially Google-supported OS on any PC, not just Chromebooks and Chrometops... — read more
Issues with the 10 nm node yields!
Base 10 nm production started in late 2018 has been improved in the meantime. Still does not appear viable for “full production” and “shipping for revenue” purposes. Upcoming SuperFin 10 nm nodes are “unquestionably far better than base 10nm... — read more
Intel, Dell and Google Walk into a Bar
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/10/22167324/google-dell-intel-modern-computing-alliance-cloud-consortium Google, Dell, Intel and a handful of other major tech companies in the IT and cloud computing industries have banded together to tackle... — read more
Optane Memory news
Is this a good news for intel? https://www.anandtech.com/show/16318/intel-announces-new-wave-of-optane-and-3d-nand-ssds How good is the news? What can shareholders expect?
Bye Bob.
"Intel is looking for a new CEO. There are multiple candidates, one has been shot down, 3 potential left. They are hoping to make the decision in Q1, probably after the Jan call. Does seem like Bob's going either way... — read more
Even if "Wintel" still exists, the "windows" part of it isn't giong to prop up Intel anymore
Another piece of Intel's life raft started disappearing 2 years ago- Microsoft de-emphasizing Windows in its corporate plans as it splitted up its Windows... — read more
Great post-mortem analysis on Intel
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4394581-wintel-wars-apples-revenge-on-microsoft-and-intel Most intelligent engineers who worked at Intel, saw the writing on the wall, and moved on already know this story, but it is nice to summarize it for the... — read more
Bye bye TMG
“ Intel is expected to outsource production of its most advanced chips mainly to T.S.M.C.” Announcing January
Intel Sports...whats left?
Seems a lot of people gone recently. Did they finally k–l this? Whats leftover?
Intel managers managing what they don’t understand.
Many groups at Intel have managers/PEs who can’t describe what it is that they are managing... so only focus is on saving cost not outcomes ... congratulating/awarding each other on how much money they saved and not looking at outcomes at all. At... — read more
Wall Street Journal 12/12/20 article “Intel Not Inside: How Mobile chips overtook the semi-conductor giant
“The need for custom options and improved power management in all applications — not just mobile, but PC and cloud — helped Arm beat Intel and win over the world’s tech giants and startups alike”. WSJ articles start off behind a pay wall but this... — read more
Intel is SDL-ed to death
I think a general problem in big companies is that for every problem a new process is defined to make sure it does not happen again. This is tempting idea, but at one point, all work is stopped in bloated processes. SDL is one of them. The amount of... — read more
I'm with Elon. Intel got MBA-ed to death.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/elon-musk-on-the-problem-with-corporate-america-too-many-mbas-.html Big corporate CEOs often get caught up in the numbers and lose sight of their mission, which is to create “awesome” products or services, according... — read more
Germany, France, 11 other EU countries team up for semiconductor push
Germany, France, 11 other EU countries team up for semiconductor push. By Foo Yun Chee. 2 Min Read. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany, France, Spain... — read more
Are we certain there'll be no layoffs before next year?
I'm worried we might be surprised in the next few weeks. It wouldn't be the first time Intel pulled something like that.
No surprises here
Intel makes the America's 5 Worst-Run Companies of 2020 list. Is anybody actually surprised by this? Swan took up the reins at Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) at the start of 2019. Since then, the largest chip company repeatedly has been overwhelmed by... — read more
Head in the sand
Intel knew that Google and Apple were both developing chips... Intel ignored this for more than a decade. I participated in the corporate strategic meetings way back in 2004 - 2006 timeframe where senior managers conducted analyses and senior... — read more
When It Rains, It Pours
Time to throw the towel yet? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-reportedly-testing-intel-beating-121440987.html
Changes to Minimum Pension Plan - More Employee Pain
I'm trying to get my head around the upcoming change to the MPP. According to a notice from Fidelity, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is changing how it determines an interest rate that is used (by Intel) to calculate the benefit... — read more
Groups to join/avoid at Intel
Let’s get the good and the bad. I’ll start: Previous group: okay, but I felt I was doing stuff that was too driven by metrics and not focused on improving the quality of the fab process; manager was good technically, but seemed to be using his... — read more
M1 was only the beginning
The benchmarks are in if it was only Apple it would be but a few % points, but with complete IP, cores for license and superior technology everyone will soon have their own chip and Intel’s x86 walled garden has complete collapsed. Without... — read more
There are no simple fixes
One of the reasons Intel is in such a poor strategic position right now is that there are no simple fixes. Intel is getting squeezed by renewed strong competition from many different directions. The internal problems are even worse. There's no... — read more
Layoffs in Movidius
Coming in Q1 2020. Leadership has all left. Reorg coming.