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What's Going On with Intel?

by diskmuncher on 8/15/20, 9:10 AM with 38 comments

  • by sxp on 8/15/20, 3:35 PM

    https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1294653961211752448

    > Friends, at the request of the original author, I have deleted the thread entitled "What's going on with Intel?" He was not comfortable with the attention it is getting.

  • by Symmetry on 8/15/20, 11:43 AM

    The idea that Intel's process was able to stay ahead by accepting design rules that were hard to work with was something I'd always heard. That's why their foundry plays, despite the process lead back in the day, never seemed to work out.

  • by Const-me on 8/15/20, 1:58 PM

    Interesting.

    BTW if anyone wanna watch the video linked from #4, here’s the link, took me couple of attempts due to uppercase i versus lowercase L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLpQnIJviE

  • by rossdavidh on 8/15/20, 1:56 PM

    It's a big ship, which is hard to turn around. However, I am reminded that General Motors was clearly a shadow of it's former self by the late 1970's, yet it took until the Fiscal Crisis in 2008 for it to actually go bust. When you're that big, you can spiral downwards for a long, long time.

  • by martinpw on 8/15/20, 3:51 PM

    Very interesting set of posts. Part 4 on what Keller did to shake things up was particularly enlightening (and impressive).

    I wish there was a part 5 discussing why he left. I've seen lots of speculation but no good inside information.

  • by nabla9 on 8/15/20, 9:54 AM

    Interesting read.

    The point about Intel having many units waiting for 14nm capacity to be gradually released to them from CPU/Server business is good one. All those 14nm fabs should be used for other things already.

  • by DoofusOfDeath on 8/15/20, 3:17 PM

    I'm getting an error message saying "This Tweet is unavailable." Does that mean it's been deleted? (I don't normally use Twitter.)

    And if so, is there still some way I can read the content?

  • by post_break on 8/15/20, 2:47 PM

    You can see why Apple saw the sinking ship in 2015 and started down the ARM path with all the delays and vulnerabilities.

  • by redwood on 8/15/20, 2:50 PM

    I will never understand the fascination with Twitter.

  • by justinclift on 8/15/20, 10:51 AM

    It's a bit hard to read as is. There are several posts in .png format, each translated to English. There's a bunch of insightful info in them.

    Part 1:

    https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1288911541207613440/ph...

    Part 2:

    https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1288402697536720897/ph...

    Part 2.5 (a commentary by the author):

    https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1289816670626709506/ph...

    Part 3:

    https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1291687789260451847/ph...

    Part 4:

    https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1293444174851653632/ph...

    This appears to be thr original (non-english) author:

    https://www.facebook.com/RDinPortland

  • by kanox on 8/15/20, 10:47 AM

    That's a tweet with an image of part 3 of an article?

    I don't understand why people do this. Please just post text.