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Re:Intel will lay off 20'000 employees by cowmix on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:45PM (#33181249)
I've typed this before but I'll type it again here. About 10 years ago I ran the local Python Meetup group here in Phoenix. Intel had/has a big presence here and one of they guys who worked on the Atom team (doing compiler optimizations for that chip family) told us (at one of the Meetups)Intel corporate didn't like how good a processor Atom was shaping up to be. They were worried it would start to cannibalize their desktop and server processor lines -- so they did everything possible to cripple its development.

He and his whole team were furious.

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Re:Intel will lay off 20'000 employees by spfzero on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:23PM (#33181762)
If someone is going to eat your current business, it's better if it is you. Fear of cannibalization is basically, "our customers will find out we have an even better product for them than the one they are currently buying from us." It's a good thing for your customers, and it's good for the long-term competitiveness of your company.
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Re:Intel will lay off 20'000 employees by Sylamore on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:25PM (#33183538)
I've always told my business partners when discussing future products that if you aren't afraid to cannibalize your own revenue streams, your competitor (or another internal team) will.
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Re:Intel will lay off 20'000 employees by tuatoru on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:22PM (#33183492)
SOP.

IBM crippled the AS/400 when it looked like it could eat into their mainframe business, for example.

It's the innovator's dilemma.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma

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Re:Intel will lay off 20'000 employees by xwolfi on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:43PM (#33185284)
All that to end up with giant cloud providers selling arm servers...
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Re:Intel will lay off 20'000 employees by nprateem on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:54AM (#33187383)
This is called the innovators dilemma
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Re:Intel will lay off 20'000 employees by Aromasin on Friday October 14, 2022 @06:20AM (#33201638)
The Atom core is starting to find it's place now though, albeit years later. New Hybrid architecture in the core platforms, in the guise of the efficiency core, and for IoT/MilTech platforms there's a massive growing market with their Elkhart/Tiger Lake processor taking a large share of it.
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