Mr Intel leaving Intel is not a great sign... for Intel

Interesting column in The Register today.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/09/opinion_colum...

I'm not sure where this will all end. One thing I think however is certain; the mighty and once unassailable Intel some of us may remember from the halcyon years of the PC revolution from the 1980's through 2000's is well and truly gone.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

One thing I think however is certain; the mighty and once unassailable Intel some of us may remember from the halcyon years of the PC revolution from the 1980's through 2000's is well and truly gone.

Thanks for link, I’ve been listening to various podcasts, and even the Apple centric ones think that Gelsinger going leaves intel with a CEO hole that plugging is going to be really hard. So I agree with your statement above.

Rupert Goodwins has been negatively writing about IT industry for decades. I first came across his output in Personal Computer World magazine… along with Dick Pountain whom is now at PCPro.

Not sure Rupert has the Intel and Apple stuff right, as the Macbook Air relied on the Pentium M derived Core 1 (duo, not the brain dead solo), and then the Core 2,3, etc and Apple’s 11” Mac used the entry level CPUs for ages. Dramatically lower battery consumption than the PowerPC architecture from IBM/Motorola.

The future being ARM is good for laptops, lets see if the ARM world kicks the data centre and enterprise compute.

Edited by jchamier (Mon 09-Dec-24 18:13:26)

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Not sure Rupert has the Intel and Apple stuff right, as the Macbook Air relied on the Pentium M derived Core 1 (duo, not the brain dead solo), and then the Core 2,3, etc and Apple’s 11” Mac used the entry level CPUs for ages. Dramatically lower battery consumption than the PowerPC architecture from IBM/Motorola.

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The future being ARM is good for laptops, lets see if the ARM world kicks the data centre and enterprise compute.

Amd were, under the plug in play bulldozer arch, had a plug in arm unit. Plus there was talk of a dedicated opteron arm chip - which i think got burried either when Lisa came along or just at the end of Rory's tenure

i still can't understand why may sold arm off to softbank

Not read the article. But i do think Intel has said and done one too many lies, stifled the x86 community for fair to long and AMD's third cometh seems to be stable this time ..

Add in Intels multiple chip disasters - will Intel ever be the same?

Unless you have support structures that rely on intel and or software than runs better on intel, then why buy intel!

It’s poor. Really poor from the Intel board. Smacks of desperation.

Have a read if you have 10 minutes. There’s nothing there that one could really argue with, despite being slightly hyperbolic; it is after all an opinion piece. I certainly wouldn’t argue with the conclusions, even if some of the details aren’t perfect.

Intel have been running on “milk x86 autopilot” for way too long (decades!!) and it’s all finally caught with them.

I fully expect them to break up, piecemeal like going forward. A sad slow decline.

More today from The Register.

With Gelsinger gone, to fab or not to fab is the $7B question

Quite the pickle.

Edited by Pheasant (Tue 10-Dec-24 22:41:37)

Link doesn't work, should be https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/10/gelsinger_dep...

Edited by billford (Tue 10-Dec-24 22:44:45)

Thanks. Fixed.

For a few years now I've often been reminded of the early mickey-taking AMD ads- a coffin and headstone with "Intel inside" on it... a bit premature but they might have it right this time.