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What happened is they fired tens of thousands of their workforce. They knee-capped themselves. Having people with experience and institutional knowledge is requ
by downrightmike 1y ago
What happened is they fired tens of thousands of their workforce. They knee-capped themselves. Having people with experience and institutional knowledge is required. You can't just toss that out the windows and expect things to work.
- BeetleB 1y agoBy any measure, Intel was bloated. All their competitors are doing a lot more with a lot fewer people. Now whether they fired the right tens of thousands is another matter.
- snerbles 1y ago> All their competitors are doing a lot more with a lot fewer people. According to Wikipedia, for FY25: Intel: 102,000 employees AMD: 28,000 employees Nvidia: 36,000 employees I'm pretty sure the latter two have been growing headcount lately, and even then combined they still have fewer employees than Intel.
- AnotherGoodName 1y agoYou need to add tsmcs employees to the amd and nvidia counts since intel is a foundry. +82k puts it around equal. Now intel isn’t doing as well on the chip design side as amd or nvidia nor as well on the fab side as tsmc but i suspect that’s on leadership thrashing constantly like it is more than anything else.
- BeetleB 1y agoYes, but TSMC does a ton more volume than Intel's fabs.
- tester756 1y agoIntel (100k +-) should be compared with AMD (28k) + TSMC (84k)
- nomel 1y agoIntel also uses TSMC [1] for ARC, since they can't compete. So, you need to add some large fraction of TSMC to intel, also. [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-will-keep-using-tsmcs-services-even-when-18a-is-ramped-up-it-is-a-good-supplier https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-will-keep-u...
- HPsquared 1y agoBoth statements can be true.