Imagine telling this would happen to anyone just 10 years ago, they would have send you immediately to the asylum.

How much of it's workforce has Intel already fired in the last 2 years? Sounds to me like they fired at least half their staff by now.

This will become a make or break for Intel. Nova Lake needs to be competitive with AMD's offerings or it's pretty much over on the desktop.

As for the servers, it's a good thing that they bring back hyperthreading, not having it is certainly hurting them in the server space where highest thread counts matter most for most customers.

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.

By the way, if you have some Asus hardware, you may want to read this:

Asus says 'all issues have been resolved' regarding Armoury Crate, MyAsus, and router vulnerabilities, so I'd jump on those updates now if you were putting them off
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/security/asus-says-all-issues-have-been-resolved-regarding-armoury-crate-myasus-and-router-vulnerabilities-so-id-jump-on-those-updates-now-if-you-were-putting-them-off/
Last month we reported on a fresh vulnerability discovered in Asus Armoury Crate, adding to a list of known exploits identified by researchers in AC, MyAsus, DriverHub and certain Asus routers. The company appears to have been beavering away with software and firmware fixes across its lineup since then, and has now given its products the full a-okay.

"Asus recognizes recent reports from security researchers concerning potential software issues with MyAsus, Armoury Crate, DriverHub, and certain Asus router models. All of these issues have been resolved," the company said.

"Users can see here for more information and to download the latest software version."

Somehow I can't reply or quote anymore because the submit (and preview) buttons don't seem to work, just the quick reply still seems to work for me. Anybody else having the same issue?

Forgot to mention, that's only in this thread and editing also doesn't work anymore.

Let me see.

*Edit* It appears to be working for me. Or at least it works now.

Yeah, looks like it's fixed. Dunno what caused it, but as long as the problem is gone, it's fine I'd say.

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.

I beat Assassin's Creed Rogue on Steam.

Game: Assassin's Creed Rogue
Genre: Action
Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Ubisoft
System: Steam (PC)
Year of Release: 2015
Date of Completion: July 26th 2025
Length of Playthrough: 21 Hours

+Great story and cast of characters
+Fun extended version of the Naval and combat from Black Flag
-Glitches such as invisible characters and ragdoll bodies flipping out
-Shorter than most other AC games

Score wise comparison...

Assassin's Creed Director's Cut (PC): 84
Assassin's Creed II (PC): 90
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (PC): 92
Assassin's Creed Revelations (PC): 85
Assassin's Creed III (PC): 80
Assassin's Creed Liberation HD (PC): 71
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (PC): 85
Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry (PC): 77
Assassin's Creed Rogue (PC): 85

PC Specs I played the game with

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
RAM: 32 GB DDR5 SDRAM
STORAGE: 2 TB SSD
OS: Windows 11 Home