10mo ago

Intel outlines a plan to get back in the game: Pause fab projects in Europe, make the foundry unit an independent subsidiary, and streamline the x86 portfolio

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10mo ago

Intel outlines a plan to get back in the game: Pause fab projects in Europe, make the foundry unit an independent subsidiary, and streamline the x86 portfolio

www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/cpus/intel-outlines-a-plan-to-get-back-in-the-game-pause-fab-projects-in-europe-make-the-foundry-unit-an-independent-subsidiary-and-streamline-the-x86-portfolio

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maybe they should consider not having built out giant fab plants 10 miles away from the world's largest concentration camp.
- oops! all my quality assurance staff just got sent to Gaza to become features on Al-qassam's daily 🔻 videos and now my computer chips are all fried????
A better plan would be to go back to 2006 and invest heavily in XScale
The subtext: computing resources have significantly shifted to the gpu, so in order to to keep selling cpus no one needs were discontinuing the old cpus and replacing them with risc units that cant run the old software.
The industry equivalent of a war consuming capital and destroying dead labor.
How long until AMD buys Intel?
- That seems like the sort of move that might actually trigger antitrust regs