Will more funding be needed to keep Intel competitive?

On 1 August 2024, Intel announced financial results for the second quarter of 2024. They weren’t pretty; the company’s stock dropped more than 25 percent as it announced an aggressive plan to cut costs, including layoffs that will impact 15 percent of its entire workforce.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    the curve is firmly set by Taiwan, Intel is playing catch up at best.

    Intel is just the right size to fail.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t think that’s necessarily true.

      Much of Intel’s foundry future is bet on Intel 18A, the company’s next leading-edge semiconductor production process. This “1.8-nanometer” production process will combine multiple Intel innovations including 3D hybrid bonding, nanosheet transistors, and back-side power delivery. Demler says that, if all goes to plan, Intel’s 18A should compete directly with, or even exceed, TSMC’s upcoming 2N process technology.

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        2 months ago

        “bet”, “next”, “will”, “if”, “plan”, “should”.

        that’s a lot of faith to place in the unproven optimistically hypothetical next steps of a company way behind the firmly established innovation, dominance and reliability of TSMC semi fab.

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          2 months ago

          Sure, but it’s also hard to bid against a company that we all know the US government is not going to let fail.

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            2 months ago

            no bidding, it’s history.

            Intel has been that big for decades and has been left in the dust by TSMC for decades.

            the US has repeatedly invested in “too big to fail” companies and has been rewarded with recessions, housing crises, national credit demotion, crippling healthcare costs, and rampant inflation.

            if it’s too big to fail, it’s too big to exist.