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One of the things that sucked about working for Intel is that you just knew you were working for a company that had the institutional personality of a complete

One of the things that sucked about working for Intel is that you just knew you were working for a company that had the institutional personality of a complete raging arsehole. HR people would explain to you that whilst yes, those floating point units did demonstrably produce the wrong answers, Intel as an organisation doesn't accept that it did anything wrong, customer expectations were simply misplaced. Geopolitically Intel is probably going to need to get bailed out, but it's a toxic company that could do with disappearing. I won't be mourning their Sales & Marketing teams.

m463 6y ago
From the outside I have to say one thing. If Intel went away we would all lose. This isn't like the phone company where somebody has won and consumers take the brunt of it. This is a situation where there's a struggle and Intel HAS to compete and AMD has to compete and the winners are consumers. I also think what is probably happening inside intel is that the employees will benefit from the competition. I think it might quell infighting and put good engineering decisions back above shitty dynasties.