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.

  • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    They brought him in to fix things, after a gaping finance moron named Bob swan took it after Brian krzanich pushed gelsinger out after he rescued it in the 2000s by developing the core series after the pentium 4 failed.

    Brian krzanich fiddled because amd was on fire and he thought he could keep arm at bay. Bob swan didn’t understand anything so he just cranked they buybacks.

    It’s a nightmare, and it’s just getting worse, their engineering management went to hell because internal politics beat everything else.