[0] https://www.gov.pl/web/cyfryzacja/inwestycja-intela-w-polsce...
1: https://www.threads.com/@masiosare/post/C-SoS6qJbU6?hl=en
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that...
Honestly, good. AMD is amazing for laptop/desktop and server now, but may flop like Intel did. Always good with competition. But I need a new CPU and right now AMD is king.
Phone only plebs need not apply.
It seems like the author of this article requires another reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brimelow
https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Order-Economists-Invented-Aus...
Not sure if you intentionally picked the all time high headcount, but you did.
Intel's headcount was relatively stable between 100-110k people between 2014 and 2021 [0]. So, getting down to 75k is definitely still a major reduction, but 2022 was also an outlier. A lot of companies overhired during Covid, and Intel particularly was the beneficiary of WFH pulling in a lot of corporate spending on laptops etc.
[0] https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/intel-2025-q1-financial...
American markets have largely consolidated into oligopolies, where just a handful of very large companies operate. It's extremely easy for them to wink at each other and then raise prices/layoff workers, etc.
This is also being accelerated by the unregulated software market that lets the corporations hide behind algorithms, as we recently saw with realty. https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/nx-s1-5087586/realpage-rent-l...
The end of ZIRP was the bat signal to corporate America to begin layoffs.
<1%? 1%? 2%?
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
Many other companies “Wall Street” trades shares in did not have a problem with setting long term goals for compensation, why did Intel?
Why would Wall St want Intel’s market cap graph to look like this:
https://companiesmarketcap.com/intel/marketcap/
Rather than this:
https://companiesmarketcap.com/tsmc/marketcap/
https://companiesmarketcap.com/nvidia/marketcap/
https://companiesmarketcap.com/apple/marketcap/
https://companiesmarketcap.com/qualcomm/marketcap/
It makes no sense to scapegoat Wall Street, when the SP500 was a rocketship (does Wall Street not get the blame for that, if they are apparently responsible for Intel’s demise?)
> "If we are unable to secure a significant external customer and meet important customer milestones for Intel 14A, we face the prospect that it will not be economical to develop and manufacture Intel 14A and successor leading-edge nodes on a go-forward basis," a statement by Intel in a 10Q filing with the SEC reads. "In such event, we may pause or discontinue our pursuit of Intel 14A and successor nodes and various of our manufacturing expansion projects."
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/in...
[1] https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/Very-poor-Linux-supp...
Disclaimer: I own a netbook and spent a very long time researching getting it to work with Linux
> On June 27, 2006, the sale of Intel's XScale PXA mobile processor assets was announced. Intel agreed to sell the XScale PXA business to Marvell Technology Group for an estimated $600 million in cash and the assumption of unspecified liabilities. The move was intended to permit Intel to focus its resources on its core x86 and server businesses.
So they got out of the world’s biggest new market 1 year before iphone came out.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/rise-decline-intel-2024-1...
> 2007 - Apple launches the iPhone, helping kick off a mobile phone boom that Intel mostly missed. Under CEO Paul Otellini, Intel turned down a deal to make iPhone processors because it did not stand to profit enough from the arrangement. Instead, Apple used chips based on designs from Arm Holdings , whose tech now dominates the mobile market.
The leaders from 20 years ago made the bed that Intel now has to sleep in.
But yes, together, the Big 3 are the single largest shareholder in 88% of SP500 companies.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-and-politic...