Madagascar_Sky@Madagascar_Sky@mastodon.social
@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social
Don't quote me on this, but apparently this is the story, that I heard on the internet.
I think the problem seems to be that the proper way was being perused by Pat Gelsinger. It was going to be hard and it was going to be unpopular, but it would've brought the company out of the rut.
But then the share price dropped and then the board fired him and brought in a yes man. The yes man is just 'maximising profit' and parting out the company to be sold off.
EDIT.
Zimmie@bob_zim@infosec.exchange
@Madagascar_Sky@mastodon.social @nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social It’s a combination of things, but that’s certainly one of them.
Ultimately, Intel was overconfident, and took too long to realize they were in trouble. They fell behind on fab tech, their primary core design ran out of gas for a while (they focused on performance, expecting fab advances to keep power usage in check), Atom was a plan to fix that but it took longer than they could afford to start getting good.
Now they’re killing or selling off all the “non-core” parts of the business like OPA, Barefoot, flash dies and SSD controllers, and so on. I hope they at least keep going with Arc.