Intel Poor Executions

Things started getting bad at Intel under Craig Barrett (CRB). Intel was making garbage in Mobile and NOR-Flash. Mobile CPU used ARM architecture. Research In Motion (RIM) was Mobile customer. Mobile chip was used in Blackberry telephone. Intel also failed in Graphics.

Then, Paul Otellini (PSO) enherited these debacles when he became CEO.

I tried to warn CRB and PSO about Mobile and Flash businesses. They did not care, and shortly after they laid off 10,500 employees (2006 massive layoff). They shut down Mobile and NOR flash businesses and left RIM in limbo. Pat Gelisinger (PG) left Intel shortly after.

When Intel came back with X86 Mobile, phones with X86 exploded in Brasil. The brasilian company, Mobile customer, sued Intel because it claimed the explosion was caused by X86 Mobile CPU. Again, Intel shut down the X86 Mobile business quietly. Finally, Intel missed the largest market opportunity in the history of semiconductors.

When CRB was asked why Intel missed Mobile, he blamed ARM architecture
When PSO was asked he blamed Steve Job for being cheap. He claimed Job offered little for a die/chip. PSO also claimed that Intel was not sure about the volume. But failed to mention that Intel was in Mobile using ARM.

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It seems that other companies have got ARM to work just fine. And Apple is always going to drive a hard bargain, but blowing the next big thing off was ill-advised. And the guys that followed Paul were even worse.

It seems that bad execution can impact things negatively but so can bad CEOs.

@1hus
"Genuine question: how did you warn them, sent emails to them, asked questions during meetings with them, wrote articles somewhere, ...?"

I tried to get top local management and D2 to raise my concern, but because I have not seen any resolution I contact by email Craig Barrett (Chairman) and Paul Otellini (CEO)

@1hus+1kt01VEp When and where did you do that and under what kind of review? And since we are so honored at your presence why haven’t you asked time with Pat or some of the BoD to tell them what you think of IDM and IFS, great strategy or FUBAR?

Lord what's this fetish for acronyms in intel lol

"I tried to warn CRB and PSO about Mobile and Flash businesses. They did not care, ..."

Genuine question: how did you warn them, sent emails to them, asked questions during meetings with them, wrote articles somewhere, ...?

Every time you shorten another name to a TLA god ki--s another kitten.

Why not? Good idea for you to contact BDO, with all their experience, intelligence and degrees, not to mention being instrumental on some technology or other’s market adoption, how did the Intel franchise end this way. They must be really bright or really raking it in to not have any incentive to do anything intelligent.

Xscale and Blackberry:
https://www.edn.com/intel-xscale-scores-big-with-blackberry/

@1mlo
Thank you for suggesting to contact BOD.

@1cmo
The time I am pointing to is when Intel makes ARM based devices known as XSCALE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale

@Op maybe you should submit your resume to the BOD for consideration. I especially like the part where you were warning CRB and PSO about mobile and flash.

I recall the Blackberry actually used a 386 chip not ARM.

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