Anne O. Nymous (not.delete@this.real.address) on January 27, 2023 12:09 am wrote:
> Chris G (chrisg.delete@this.chrisg.com) on January 26, 2023 5:02 pm wrote:
> > I thought this quote from the NY Times article was interesting: “She also determined that Intel had
> > scheduled more products than its engineers and customers could easily handle. So she streamlined that
> > product road map, including pushing back a successor to Sapphire Rapids to 2024 from 2023.”
> >
> > In other words, Xeon Emerald Rapids is also delayed again. Emerald Rapids is just Sapphire Rapids with
> > some more errata fixed, a 17% increase in DRAM bandwidth and a 25% increase in intersocket bandwidth
> > on the same process technology. It could be that the complexity of x86 and the hairball of their numerous
> > instruction set extensions is just too much for anyone to deal with. I would also guess a big part of
> > Intel’s problem is poor management. Andy Grove was probably the best technology manager of all time
> > but that was a long time ago. Now the type of innovation
> > we get from Intel is renaming the process technology
> > from Intel 4 to Intel 3 because a name with a smaller number must surely be better.
>
> You know that Pat Gelsinger became CEO of intel just ~ 2 years ago? It takes time to change things,
> so maybe give the gentleman a bit more time to pull things around (well possible he might fail
> given the "institutional inertia" of a behemoth company like intel, but he might prevail, but we
> only know after giving the whole exercise enough time to play out one way or the other).
>

Pat Gelsinger left Intel in 2009 not because he was very successful in positions he was holding.

> Now, it looks pretty clear that intel was resting on its laurels for too long and
> the whole 10nm process cluster-fsck certainly did not help, but not sure whether
> all is doom and gloom, it is still a pretty rich and resourceful company...