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What you describe is mad inattention to costs, not only to opportunities: maybe a symptom of widespread misaligned incentives (e.g. delivering a design with mir
by HelloNurse 2y ago
What you describe is mad inattention to costs, not only to opportunities: maybe a symptom of widespread misaligned incentives (e.g. delivering a design with mirrored chiplets quickly could be more "useful" for an engineer than saving a few millions for the company by taking one more week to design a more complex assembly of identical chiplets) and toxic priorities (e.g. theoretical quality over market value and profits, risk aversion, risk/cost externalization towards departments you want to be axed instead of your own).
- timschmidt 2y agoCouldn't agree more. To me, AMD's approach demonstrates planning and buy-in across multiple teams (CPU die, Ryzen IO die, Epyc IO die, etc), and that suggests a high degree of management involvement in these engineering decisions. Intel's activities seem comparatively chaotic. Which I agree smells of disincentives and disinterested middle management hyperfixated on KPIs.