Re:Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend
by UncleOxidant on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:05PM
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> They made a decent effort with Xscale too, to be fair.
Sure, but they threw it away about a year before the iPhone came out.
Yeah, they did try a lot of bold efforts, but they've pretty much all been mis-steps. They always had factions that were "x86 forever" and when things weren't going great those factions would come in and say "hey, why are we working on this thing that's not our x86 bread-n-butter?" and they'd either kill it or they'd only half-heartedly keep it going until the underinvestment killed it.
Re:Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend
by KMag on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:26PM
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But weren't they forced to purchase StrongARM/XScale from DEC as part of their hyperthreading patent infringement settlement?
Re:Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend
by andromeduck on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:37AM
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Think they should have either really stuck it out with Itanium, put more effort into compiler/tooling development or kept up with Xscale.
> They could have been using decades of margin to build and consolidate positions in other segments of the market.
That seems pretty simplistic. Optane and Larrabee were bold efforts. (Heck, so was Itanium). It's not like they didn't try throwing money and R&D at things. But that isn't always enough.
> Rather than, say, taking the ARM licenses they ended up flogging and building a competitive mobile CPU on their leading process, they invented weird Atom chips that ended up in like 3 phones.
They made a decent effort with Xscale too, to be fair.