I felt like Intel was slowly making progress, but the board was too impatient and let Pat Gelsinger go too soon. I don't understand why Lip-Bu Tan would be a better choice than Gelsinger.
You just need to look at Intel’s stock performance under Gelsinger to see why Gelsinger was let go. His loss of a 40% discount on 3nm from TSMC for upsetting them also did major damage to profits.
Stock price alone doesn't tell the full story. Pat Gelsinger was brought in to fix long-term structural issues at Intel - things like rebuilding its foundry competitiveness and securing leading-edge node capabilities. These aren't quick fixes and takes years to pay off. Yes, the TSMC discount issue hurt, but that also speaks to broader industry tensions and strategic missteps that predates Gelsinger. Letting him go before the turnaround had a chance to work seems shortsighted.
The stock lost 2/3 of its value under his tenure. After nearly 4 years and a minor recovery in the stock’s value that was reversed into a new 10+ year low for reasons that were almost entirely the CEO’s fault, I expect most boards of directors would lose confidence in the CEO and fire him.
Pat Gelsinger killed the royal cores project which handed CPU dominance to AMD. Without leadership in CPUs to keep the company going, there would be no Intel. They reportedly lost their entire Oregon design team to a startup developing RISC-V processors as a result of the cancellation, which will have repercussions for many years. Intel’s stock had been on a small recovery until Zen 5 made it clear that Intel could no longer compete with AMD CPUs on performance, which caused the stock to crater. The power management bugs that were killing nearly all of the high end rocket lake CPUs just prior to this also did not help, as they erased some of the gains during the recovery, before it was entirely wiped out by Intel’s lack of competitiveness against Zen 5. There was nothing in Intel’s pipeline to compete with Zen 5, because Gelsinger had cancelled the project that could compete with Zen 5.
The loss of the TSMC discount did not predate Gelsinger. TSMC pulled the discount directly in response to comments made by Gelsinger that they considered disrespectful. This became public knowledge. As I recall, there had been a rumor/leak around summer of 2024 that the board had been very unhappy about that.
While there were issues that predated Gelsinger, he did nothing to fix them. There is a great writeup on that here:
The only thing that predates Gelsinger that Gelsinger cannot be considered responsible for failing to fix is Intel’s reputation as an IP thief from the 80s and 90s. It is likely a major reason nobody wants to use Intel’s foundries.
Apparently, he also volunteered Qualcomm as a customer before they agreed to it and blew a bunch of money buying the high NA EUV machines when TSMC didn’t even have them in the roadmap
You mean mcdonnell douglass. Who went "we both know who's on top here" when they merged, immediately put all of its own people in positions of power, and then effectively destroyed boeing from the inside out in order to maximize shareholder value, until only their name was left and some 350 people were in literal body bags.
I agree that the bean counters from McDonnell Douglas played a big role in Boeing's decline. but it's important to remember that the merger was a negotiated one, not a hostile takeover. Still, it's sad to see how many once-great engineering companies - like DEC, HP, SUN - have been brought down by poor leadership.
I hope people will come to the realisation that we have created a good plagiarizer at best. The "intelligence" originates from the human beings who created the training data for these LLMs. The hype will die when reality hits.
If you seek the truth, you will find it. In fact, a majority of people in this world are on the side of the Russians, despite what you were led to believe. A good starting point is to listen to Professor John Mearsheimer.
1) "a majority of people in this world" don't give a fuck, factually speaking; 2) if they did, that still wouldn't be an independent reason to think that's correct--you may not have noticed, but most people are selfish, stupid, and ignorant; 3) "despite what you were led to believe." -- it was never a claim of anyone pro-Ukraine that the majority of people in the world are on their side. Nor should it be. The opinion of the majority does not determine what is right.
Why do you claim the "majority of people" support the genocide of Ukraine? What have Ukrainians done to more than 5 billion people to support wiping out of Ukraine?
If it was the majority, I shouldn't need to seek it, it would be out there to see.
> Why is Russia giving full citizenship to Ukrainians?
They want to annex Ukraine, of course they’re giving their citizenship. They do it in all occupied territories: DNR/LNR, Crimea, Abkhazia (90% took it), South Ossetia (95% took it).
It's a horrible position to be forced to take a passport you don't want in order to survive - in your own home. It's an atrocious crime against humanity, and a blatant attempt to dilute those who aren't Russians into forced Russian citizens.
But if you want an even more evil attempt to destroy Ukraine national identity in occupied territory is what Russia is doing by forcing schools to teach a distorted event about the Russian invasion and indoctrinate children: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/ukraine-russi...
That's some messed up argument you're making there - like all the Ukrainians had the same choice to be refugees in a given country.
Like poor people with no resources that got invaded by Russia had the time and resources to weight options and choose a better destination. It's disgusting what you're doing - you're literally washing genocide.
Let me guess, for you the +20.000 Ukrainian children kidnapped and filtrated by Russia are there to be kept safe from the war?
For almost 2 years they weren't returned to their guardians to be kept safe uh? A crime for which Putin is internationally wanted, and it's one of the crimes that constitutes genocide.
> Interesting 'genocide'.
I think you should look into what genocide is, and how Russia has done it in the past.
I would trust a proven security research group's analysis and evidence of backdoors rather than CNN or WSJ that has a track record of lies and biases. They always cite government sources or experts without provided a single shred of evidence. I have read a lot of articles in relations to the so called "Chinese backdoor" and the "evidence" was either the equipment contains default root or admin passwords or the software has vulnerabilities. Last time I checked, most if not all vendors have default admin accounts and passwords so you can configure the device and change the initial password. Similarly I have not come across any network equipment software without security vulnerabilities. If you can refer me to an article with conclusive evidence please send me the link. This would be much appreciated.
I had switched all my customers from CentOS 6 to FreeBSD many years ago, before systemd was introduced into RHEL. They have been running solidly for almost 9 years now, all on various DELL PowerEdge rack mounted servers.
