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I remember reading how Andy Grove, IIRC, spent two years trying to exit the DRAM business. He would flat out order people to stop working on it and they wouldn’
by tambourine_man 3y ago
I remember reading how Andy Grove, IIRC, spent two years trying to exit the DRAM business. He would flat out order people to stop working on it and they wouldn’t listen, believe or understand. The amount of inertia for large bodies is remarkable.
- Pet_Ant 3y agoAnd yet there are stories of people ignoring the company direction, continuing work, and saving the company. See: The Blue LED https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M?feature=shared https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M?feature=shared So it’s not clear that the company knows better. Feels like educated guesses but a lof of luck involved.
- tambourine_man 3y agoVery true
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoWhy was exiting the DRAM business such an obvious positive? Intel is basically at its root PC hardware. Yes, it doesn't dominate the entire industry, but memory is pretty key to a PC and the OS that runs on it. In fundamentally it's another fab product. Like chipsets.
- tambourine_man 3y agoThey were being crushed by the Japanese in price and went from the dominant player to barely registering the sales chart in one decade https://anthonysmoak.com/2016/03/27/andy-grove-and-intels-move-from-memory-to-microprocessors/ https://anthonysmoak.com/2016/03/27/andy-grove-and-intels-mo...