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Intel CEO Bob Swan to Step Down in February
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I haven't paid attention to IBM in a few years, but I thought they were doing okay with their own partnership with Apple thing?
Of course... now that I think about it... the IBM and Blackberry apps I had on my iPhone in years past have been replaced by an array of Microsoft apps... so I guess Microsoft crushed IBM and Blackberry out of the business apps for mobile devices market...
Sorry but you are so wrong. Eventhough Jobs was not a hardware and coding genius like Woz, he certainly understands coding and hardware.
My experience working at a handful of tech companies large and small is that it is easier to train a tech guy on the business than train a business guy on the tech. This feels like a good move.
That said, Intel still has a lot of market share in the server world. Almost all of it in fact. Were I in their shoes this is what I would target. Cut out of the consumer market slowly and target high compute per watt server chips. Unlike consumer chips server need many general purpose cores. There are ways to design microservices so that this is not the case but it isn't cost effective yet so Intel could do good work here and stabilize in this market space if they like.
That said, Intel still has a lot of market share in the server world. Almost all of it in fact. Were I in their shoes this is what I would target. Cut out of the consumer market slowly and target high compute per watt server chips. Unlike consumer chips server need many general purpose cores. There are ways to design microservices so that this is not the case but it isn't cost effective yet so Intel could do good work here and stabilize in this market space if they like.
'Business' can mean a lot of things.
I think an engineer can transition well to - say - supply chain management; you're still solving engineering problems, to some degree.
Marketing is a totally different ball game.
Some very smart people just don't get marketing.
They struggle to relate to other people as part of an overall set of character traits.
In fact, being skilled at both engineering and marketing is extremely rare - they're differently personality types, as a generalization. But that's an incredibly valuable person when they do appear.
I stand corrected. But regardless, let's just hope this brings a positive change to Intel in long term.
Bingo. You described the attitude that makes a company's future failures taste delicious.
We call this, 'hubris'.
Didn't even take until the M5... M1 already said when ask about Bob Swan "non-essential personnel"
(Star Trek TOS reference).
I know a ex-Intel processor arch rock start who left because of the bozo infestation @ the mid/top levels of Intel... Until you get a mo-fo who goes full Jobs on their ass they don't have a prayer... Unfortunately Andy Grove is no longer with us to shake them up.
(Star Trek TOS reference).
I know a ex-Intel processor arch rock start who left because of the bozo infestation @ the mid/top levels of Intel... Until you get a mo-fo who goes full Jobs on their ass they don't have a prayer... Unfortunately Andy Grove is no longer with us to shake them up.
It has nothing to do with TSMC. Samsung is also producing chips at 5nm.
It is simply Intel refusing to outsource their chip manufacturing to Asia.
Intel will be fine. They can be bought by someone else and outsource the production to TSMC or Samsung.
What people should be worried about is that is an other blow to US manufacturing. They again get their butt kicked by Asia.
AMEN to that! While I am not US based, I can't see this glee making any sense!
Just look at the key learnings from the solargate disaster!
Outsourcing production leading to outsourcing the process knowledge, which is essentially what is happening right now with the move to TSMC. Not only Intel, but many others too. Who in the US is still competitive on the semi process? (Or in Europe...)
What partially already happened will just accelerate: With the process eventually innovation follows, and next the complete value chain moved. I see semi following the solargate path. We will end up buying chinese products, designed in China, produced in China, and the labor is lost as well.
After a very long international career I am for sure not xenophobe! But many here cheering the demise of Intel might be sitting on a branch that is just being cut off.
A good move by Intel, they need an engineer at the top at this point, should have happened long ago...
Now we all know that Intel has lost Apple, and Qualcomm just upped its game by acquiring Nuvia, and all the other rumors about Arm developments... if you rule out Intel, wait and watch, they will come back and with Gelsinger, they have an opportunity to do something very different
Now we all know that Intel has lost Apple, and Qualcomm just upped its game by acquiring Nuvia, and all the other rumors about Arm developments... if you rule out Intel, wait and watch, they will come back and with Gelsinger, they have an opportunity to do something very different
Probably the people that read the article about Microsoft making their own version of Rosetta so x86 apps can run on ARM processors.
You don't need to install an engineer at the top of a company to enable innovative engineering.