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> I mean, when you put it that way, it's genuinely astounding that they managed to find themselves technically so far behind, and so quickly. This was not a min
by DrBazza 6y ago
> I mean, when you put it that way, it's genuinely astounding that they managed to find themselves technically so far behind, and so quickly. This was not a minor mismanagement fuck up, this is complete incompetence.
Is it though?
Or is it just the hardware of equivalent of the risky move of throwing it all away and rewriting from scratch for version 2? Intel have just incrementally improved their design, whereas AMD threw theirs away and almost disappeared in the process. In a parallel dimension, Intel could be exactly where they are now, with no AMD.
But... I agree that there was/is clearly a huge amount of incompetence letting non-engineers run an engineering company.
- bbarnett 6y agoI wonder. Large corps do gather intelligence on the competition. Even small ones do. For example, when a new pizza place opened in town, the one I worked for when in College, immediately ordered one to see what they were like, pricing, taste, etc. Large corps go way beyond this, and information does leak. Bribes, promised promotions and roles at the new company, theft of code, processes, trade secrets. You do not have to use trade secrets, IP, or processes in house, and can silo that info from engineers / the main company. Yet having an awareness of these things, gives you an idea of how much to spend on research. I wonder, did Intel not do any of this? Did they do so, but AMD security/counter espionage worked to provide a fake picture? I wonder how large corps operate in this realm, these days.