The entire purpose is so that they can juice up the numbers for when they announce quarterly numbers. For the kind of executives that stay at a company like In

The entire purpose is so that they can juice up the numbers for when they announce quarterly numbers. For the kind of executives that stay at a company like Intel, the only thing they care about is the company’s stock price, and they’ll do anything to keep it high, even if it’s at the expense of what quite literally is destroying or directly hemorrhaging in the long term to the company itself. It’s how you end up with crazy situations like this.