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Intel laid off most of their CPU designers 5 years ago. That's when their CPUs became frozen in time and it's when the marketing morons took over the executive

Intel laid off most of their CPU designers 5 years ago. That's when their CPUs became frozen in time and it's when the marketing morons took over the executive boardroom. It is well known that they are mostly a semiconductor physics shop and don't have a clue about how to design circuits or software. The challenge of making a good modem is mostly in the handoff software (most calls are in some sort of handoff most of the time) and software is the Intel Achilles Heel.

perardi 7y ago
"Intel laid off most of their CPU designers 5 years ago." Got a citation for that?
acdha 7y ago
That’s a lot of big claims with nary a citation in sight. Their software might not be consistently amazing (you might want to demonstrate that you understand how many different things they work on) but it’s not clueless and I’d especially want to see support for the idea that they don’t know how to design circuits. I mean, AMD is competitive now but they sure seem to be working hard at it – are they clueless too?
HeWhoLurksLate 7y ago
'Scuse me? As much as I like AMD more, Intel is pretty competent: They design motherboards, and share their designs with their OEM's- much like reference GPU's. They (via acquisition) have some of the better wired NIC's on the market (their features for sure beat Realtek's, and are more or less on par with Mellanox's.) [Intel doesn't] have a clue about how to design circuits or software. Them managing to even produce a single CPU and have it work would disprove that.