> A few years ago a CEO of Intel (not Gelsinger) said something like "our CPU architecture is so well-known every college student can work on it". A friend work

> A few years ago a CEO of Intel (not Gelsinger) said something like "our CPU architecture is so well-known every college student can work on it". A friend working at Intel at that time translated it to me: "we will hire cheap students to work on chips and we will let the expensive engineers leave" Reminds me of the Boeing managers saying that they didn't need senior engineers because its products were mature.. A few blown doors and deadly crashes later, that didn't age well.. https://archive.is/H9eh9#selection-3935.0-3935.163 https://archive.is/H9eh9#selection-3935.0-3935.163