The 5G specs will be complete end of the year. Qualcomm will showcase its new 5G modem in February at MWC. Intel will be still arguing about who will do the work by then.
No Layoffs
No layoffs in the foreseeable future. This Board is full of crap.
New CFO is bad news
We stopped focusing on our business and solving real business issues. Everyone is working on various CFO initiatives - path to this, path to that...We already had many unnecessary, low value add meetings and reportings, the new CFO have multiplied... — read more
Salary Raise from Grade 3 to Grade 5
Hey everyone. For all those people who started as grade 3 and got a promotion what was your salary boost? I'm currently making around 70k and I'm aware RCG grade 5s make about 95k in Chandler. I'm wondering if the raise will bring me up to 95k when I... — read more
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) Takes the Lion Share of the Server Market Over Intel Corporation (INTC)
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/advanced-micro-devices-inc-amd-172305933.html The signs are here. Layoffs are inevitable. Get used to it.
You know those old white men you laid off
Yup those were the ones that knew about process and processor design. You don't find them in Bangalore. They stuck around getting ssl4 in Hillsborough because their kids were in school and it's a cottage industry. Good luck Intel you'll need it.
Xeon vs Epyc FUD by Intel
http://wccftech.com/intel-replies-amd-naples-hpc-glued-togather-desktop-dies-zen/
PC market share
Graph says it all: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html
Ever Shrinking Benefits
List a benefit that has been reduced or eliminated since 2007... SPP reduced to 5% max
grade 8 salaries
How much is a grade 8 making - tcomp in TMG? I left 1 yr ago, salary higher but SO and bonus not quite as good. But job quality much higher and stress level significantly lower thanks
3 Companies Rewriting the Rules of Data Centers
Surprise, surprise. Intel is not one of them. https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/07/13/3-companies-rewriting-the-rules-of-data-centers.aspx
Intel stock the same price as it was in July 1999. WOW, just Wow!
18 years of dead money.
Partners vs customers
Intel has a lot of 5G partnerships with the likes of Ericsson and Nokia at the equipment manufacturing side. Qualcomm is actively lining up customers for its x50. "Definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again expecting a... — read more
Not improving efficiency
In Intel, every team is bigger than what is required. Years of market domination and naked profiteering has bred lot of inefficiency. All the job cuts that happen also are not improving efficiency but just reduce work. Managers are so incompetent... — read more
More bullets from Ashraf - 3 Signs Intel Corporation Needs New Management
Chipzilla has execution issues, it's being overtaken by competition, and keeps taking its eye off the ball https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/07/12/3-signs-intel-corporation-needs-new-management.aspx
Not specifically Intel related - but after the "high tech employee" lawsuit...
... All tech company's employees are directly affected and inexorably interconnected because "hey - Where ya gonna go?". I thought I saw some posts about this relative to Intel lately. Article source at bottom: "Most recently, Breitbart Texas... — read more
Investors shrug as Intel launches its biggest leap in server chips ‘in a decade’
Nobody cares about Intel anymore. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/07/12/intel-corp-intc-xeon-server-chips-market-share.html
Sad but true
What's the big deal? From all I have heard, Qualcomm has already gathered a huge customer base for X50, while Intel has a couple of "strategic partners". So that race is already lost. Again. Doesn't matter anymore if Intel has a competitive product... — read more
Fab monkey Brian from the fab cashes out
All Insider Trades Trading Date Name Title Type Shares Traded Price 2 Jul 2017 Krzanich (Brian M) Chief Executive Officer Sell 10,313 $33.69 2 Jul 2017 Krzanich (Brian M) Chief Executive Officer Buy 10,313 $12.99 2 Jul 2017 Krzanich (Brian M) Chief... — read more
VPG software group in Folsom got a hit this week
Few groups under VPG software were served notice this week to find jobs in two months. Luckily my group escaped. The jobs have been shifted to Mexico from Folsom. I heard that VPG hardware will take some reductions. The reason they gave is budget... — read more
Seriously, what's a hardware engineer in Portland supposed to do?
The only reason I'm still at Intel is because I love Portland. There are really no other "decent" options here for a hardware/ASIC/FPGA design engineer. Small pockets of other companies, but Intel's by far the biggest and most employable. Amazon in... — read more
Intel's first 10nm product should have been codenamed "Timber Lake," because when it lands, it'll be with a "thud."
Ashraf slamming Intel again LoL https://twitter.com/tmfchipfool/status/884907271943225344
fools gold
Goldridge Intel's first standalone 5G modem is a failure already. This special variant was supposed to ship in the millions. Now we can manufacture a few for the Intel museum. Disaster!
Epyc beating Xeons
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd-epyc-7000-cpu-battle-of-the-decade
Intel Data Center Launch blog
Here's the live blog which will be easier to quickly review than watching the video: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11615/intels-data-center-event-live-blog-830am-pt If you are reading this before 1PM EST today, July 11, the live stream is here:... — read more
Fijutsu acquisition
Intel acquired Fijutsu group in AZ few years ago. How did that work out? Any ideas?
bunkering down
It's great here in the RNB bunker. Surround yourselves with like minded people. Never leave the exec suite. What can go wrong?
Intel has 'most to lose' from 'tectonic shift in computing,' Jefferies says in downgrading stock
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/10/jefferies-downgrades-intel-to-underperform.html?__source=yahoo%7Cfinance%7Cheadline%7Cheadline%7Cstory&par=yahoo&doc=104576426&yptr=yahoo We now have a date when the Layoffs will begin again!
Intel Downgraded -- No One Should Be Surprised...
http://www.investors.com/news/technology/two-ibd-50-chip-stocks-get-price-target-hikes-intel-downgraded/?src=A00220&yptr=yahoo
Bleeding money sites...
Intel Singapore (previously Stericsson) is a typical example of intel capital investing in wrong company. They chose a highly inefficient, unskilled team with obsolete IPs for acquisition. Intel capital should be called intel charity. They give jobs... — read more
A way for Intel to boost desktop-processor prices
The article is referring to incoming Coffee Lake chips, and it makes some good points. https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/07/08/heres-how-intel-corporation-can-boost-its-desktop.aspx
Intel Commits to Spend $100 Million with Women-Owned Businesses Around the World
http://app.plan.intel.com/e/es?s=334284386&e=1560155&elqTrackId=1095b24e4d5a4c36a50a51a8350a8b33&elq=9fb7214c22b34280b3bb63634e854bf7&elqaid=27942&elqat=1 Posted without comment.
Intel's Claim of a 3-Year Lead in Manufacturing Tech is Total BS
Ashraf calling out Intel for their BS https://twitter.com/tmfchipfool/status/884223993322098689
Big boy pants time
Can wait for the next 6 months. The king we be shown to be naked again https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/01/06/intel-corporation-outs-its-first-5g-modem.aspx
Layoffs and Other News
This site seems to censure comments of substance while letting immature trolls have free reign. I see that a comment about Abigail Thompson's paper that refutes Scott Page has been deleted. http://www.ams.org/notices/201409/rnoti-p1024.pdf I see that... — read more
Is this symptomatic across Intel?
Intel mobile has a discipline problem. Most of the infineon losers are jumping into the next big thing, 5G. Only a few teams in U.S. are keeping things going on life support. What a mess!
Are representative URM hiring percentages imposed in IDC?
The indigenous population (of actual citizens) in that country is about 21%. A random sampling of names in groups in that division will quickly show that they represent a significantly smaller percentage than 21%. Question: Why are the campaigns and... — read more
Report H1B abuse by Intel at ReportH1BAbuse@uscis.dhs.gov
Below is the link to US immigrarion on combating visa abuse. I have e-mail them to start looking at Intel practices, others should do the same to help stop H1B abuse... — read more