This is just one small angle, but shows what was lost to mobile, something Intel famously stepped away from:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues-by-platform/
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues-by-platform/
I can't wrap my head around particularly one Intel product, AX200, a BT and WiFi adapter.
This product is 1% useful or more precisely it is almost utterly useless, it won't work in this
or in that way, in a normal room.
And when I had it returned to store where it was bought, the store sent it to manufacturer,
after 1 month came back from evaluation with a notice that it fully complies with
manufacturer specs. It was not broken, and I know that it wasn't, it was just not meant
to work as you would expect it to. What a joke.
This observation is by no means relevant to any other Intel product.
This product is 1% useful or more precisely it is almost utterly useless, it won't work in this
or in that way, in a normal room.
And when I had it returned to store where it was bought, the store sent it to manufacturer,
after 1 month came back from evaluation with a notice that it fully complies with
manufacturer specs. It was not broken, and I know that it wasn't, it was just not meant
to work as you would expect it to. What a joke.
This observation is by no means relevant to any other Intel product.
Same. My wife has my old 6, without a cell plan. My son scored an 11 for me, I assume on epay. Which though used - same as the 6 - has operated fully in "meets expectations" mode since I got it.
I worked for Intel for around 20. They had the same problem as DEC; could only do what they did. Shift into consumer products? Forget it. Lots of ambitious, talented product designers with actual dreams, but no, we only "enable" others to do great things. As the waves of change and new eras roll on past through those two decades. Where's my 20T USB stick with that revolutionary "Octane" memory that was supposed to be so great? Guess they only sell that to other corporations...
I wouldn’t give up hope for Intel. They have probably been hampered by momentum. And as computers got to the point of even the slowest ones being fast enuff 9ie for most a computer is now an appliance) has made the move to system on a chip compelling. And first Apple and now many others are capable of designing an ARM-based SoC and farming it out to a Fab. Intel is behind, we will see if the moves they have been making work out.
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Intel SoC.... I've programmed this...
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/fpga/arria/10.html
BTW, I'm working on another Intel SoC variation.... the Little Endian is a royal PITA. Specially when you write communication device drivers that are all Big Endian.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/fpga/arria/10.html
BTW, I'm working on another Intel SoC variation.... the Little Endian is a royal PITA. Specially when you write communication device drivers that are all Big Endian.
I beg to have another opinion here :
Intel has a customer base that buys their chips and technical solutions. The worst thing intel could do is to start
competing with it's customers, instead they should continue developing their cooperation with customers and deliver hardware/software that enables to use intels products in the CUSTOMERS products.
See the comparison with MS, gates know from day one that he should not try to compete with the customers instead
he could sell the windows software to everyone, this opposed to IBM that has for a while a better product ( OS/2) but
at the same time actually tried to compete their potential customers with IBM's resources on PC mfg. Any PC maker that
used os/2 was fool and would loose any sale to ibm.
Intel could sponsor startups emerging from the staff making new and innovative products, that would not be
that destructive to intels customer, especially if same customers could be potential parts of these startups.
Another 20% getting cut:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...e-a-20-percent-workforce-cut-this-week-report
It is just staggering the amount of losses they have endured since 2006, not to mention just in the last year.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...e-a-20-percent-workforce-cut-this-week-report
It is just staggering the amount of losses they have endured since 2006, not to mention just in the last year.
I used to work for a company that was a top partner of theirs.
They would come in every year with their updated 10-year plan. And it always was: “We know best what the market needs even when the market doesn’t. We are going to keep doing what we have always done and anything else will blow over.”
Alas, semiconductors and processors in particular went from 10-year cycles to 5-year cycles to 2-year cycles to 1-year cycles to 6-months cycles today. And the aging workforce at Intel simply cannot move that fast. (I am past 50 myself, so I am not appreciative of any kind of ageism.)
It will take a generational turnover to save the company and a renewed focus on paying attention to current market trends.
They would come in every year with their updated 10-year plan. And it always was: “We know best what the market needs even when the market doesn’t. We are going to keep doing what we have always done and anything else will blow over.”
Alas, semiconductors and processors in particular went from 10-year cycles to 5-year cycles to 2-year cycles to 1-year cycles to 6-months cycles today. And the aging workforce at Intel simply cannot move that fast. (I am past 50 myself, so I am not appreciative of any kind of ageism.)
It will take a generational turnover to save the company and a renewed focus on paying attention to current market trends.
What has changed is the speed with which "CPU" and chips are made. They're becoming integrated SoCs.
20 years ago, the CPU market was still static, while peripherals could be respun fairly quickly.
In Y2K I was using an Intel chip, I was working for a very large company and we were Intel's biggest business for these chips.
So, I was gonna change our software to accomodate the chip's internal registers... my boss instead told me to call Intel and ask them to respin a version for us. Guess what? Intel respun it in three months!
Nowadays, CPUs have become "cores" and mostly IP. The HW guys now do everything with RTL and the final product get shipped to the fabs in six month cycles. This is where ARM shines.
Note that Intel also supports SoCs with ARM cores... see the Arria products.
20 years ago, the CPU market was still static, while peripherals could be respun fairly quickly.
In Y2K I was using an Intel chip, I was working for a very large company and we were Intel's biggest business for these chips.
So, I was gonna change our software to accomodate the chip's internal registers... my boss instead told me to call Intel and ask them to respin a version for us. Guess what? Intel respun it in three months!
Nowadays, CPUs have become "cores" and mostly IP. The HW guys now do everything with RTL and the final product get shipped to the fabs in six month cycles. This is where ARM shines.
Note that Intel also supports SoCs with ARM cores... see the Arria products.
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