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Re:Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in ... by VHRanger on Sunday April 17, 2022 @07:36PM (#31065609)
Intel had toxic culture since Brian Krzanich took the lead in 2013, around the switch to 14nm.

His mistakes weren't seen clearly until almost 2019, when it became obvious 10nm was a disaster, and 14nm++++++++ was their only workable product.

We're still seeing it today as Intel has 250w TDP products competing with AMD 140w TDP products.

Semiconductors is a space where mistakes take a while to bit you.

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Re:Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in ... by bhc on Sunday April 17, 2022 @07:53PM (#31065714)
Former Samsung head Lee Kun-hee had a heart attack in 2014, and his son Jay Y. Lee took over. I don't know if that had any effect on the alleged culture problems the article talks about.
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Re:Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in ... by ineedasername on Sunday April 17, 2022 @10:04PM (#31066526)
Semiconductors is a space where mistakes take a while to bit you.

Although as we've seen with AMD, it is possible to come back from them. With the right course correction, Samsung is diversified enough to tough things out. Didn't they have a massive turnaround sometime in the 80's too?

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Re:Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in ... by geodel on Sunday April 17, 2022 @11:50PM (#31067202)
It's interesting. I read about how Samsung learned and followed a lot of processes from Boeing and lately Boeing has been faltering quite a bit and Samsung seems to be following suit.
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Re:Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in ... by bee_rider on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:26AM (#31070222)
AMD completely left the semiconductor manufacturing space and it took them like a decade to get their chip designs in a good place.
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Re:Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in ... by booi on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @07:15PM (#31090627)
You can also read that as trying to do both might be too broad for a smaller company to tackle. Apple is a clear example of how chip design and chip manufacturing don't need to be linked and may in fact hinder.
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Re:Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in ... by dylan522p on Sunday April 17, 2022 @07:54PM (#31065719)
Most folks blame the culture shift on Paul actually. He was the cause of it all. Brian being a horrible symptom of what he created, and Brian definitely propagated it far.
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