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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

What we still don't know is where will Intel cut most of those jobs. The plant they were building in Germany will be a source of lay-offs, and the ones working on the Linux distro they canned a few days ago also seem like obvious choices. But Intel will still have to cut jobs in many more places and roles.

Let's hope, for their own future, that the cuts don't impact their engeneers the most, focusing instead on the middle managements the new CEO has complained about before. Otherwise, things will look bleak for Intel.

With that said, you never know. Just like AMD was all but done on the CPU business after Bulldozer only to make a miraculous comeback, Intel may do something similar in the future.

When AMD absorbed ATI they took on a LOT of debt, then their CPU business started to falter with Phenom, Phenom 2 and Bulldozer... So AMD ended up cutting a lot of fat, spun off their fab business into Global Foundries (Which has struggled) and just focused on design... And on the design side they hired Jim Keller who was instrumental with the Zen architecture... And the rest is history.

Intel probably needs to do the same, if they aren't going to be competitive with leading edge nodes, then they need to start leveraging TSMC like AMD just to remain competitive.

But even doing that will not guarantee success, AMD's Radeon department has always struggled against nVidia with the exception if a couple of generations.

Well, Intel already tried the Jim Keller card and it doesn't seem to have worked.

There are a couple fo things that will force Intel to having to work harder to get out of the hole they got themselves into, because AMD had the advantage of designing chips for consoles, which won't help Intel (too late to the party), and we now also have ARM making big gains in the server market, with laptops and desktop PCs following in the not so distant future. Plus there's also RISC-V looming in the horizon.

So yeah, Intel has a lot of work to do.