Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’
Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’
That’s a lot of layoffs.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20181517
That’s a lot of layoffs.
can i get $50 billion
to make yummy chips and defeat Xinzo Jingbe? …. Yes… (fire all my employees and pay shareholders like a boss)The Boeing of microchips!
Capitalism enters its cannibalism phase. Feasting hungrily on itself.
Another company given every possible state advantage by the government, brought to its knees by greed.
For anyone who isn't aware, Intel is on the BDS list. Overall them losing money is a good thing. Let's hope they lose all of it.
What is an alternative to Intel? Afaik most computers are sold with their products
I wouldn't say most computers are sold with their products anymore. 20 or even 10 years ago maybe, but AMD has a pretty big chunk of market share now, and Ryzen chips are AFAIK generally considered much better than Intel alternatives anyway.
amd. there are fewer mobile options but unlike 6+ years ago they're actually a usable alternative in laptops.
For laptops, you can get AMD or Apple processors. Apple is more powerful and efficient and AMD is more compatible. Loongson may be a decent alternative for desktops in a couple of years if they aren't tariffed to hell. Qualcomm has released some ARM processors for laptops but the platform isn't mature yet, especially if you don't want to use Windows.
For desktops, there's no reason not to do full AMD. Dell makes some ryzen laptops but they don't have a GPU (so no solidworks). You won't really find AMD gaming laptops, but gaming laptops kinda stuck anyways (as someone who only owns them). You can fairly easily find AMD workstations but good luck if you're trying to find an AMD cadtop.
They've been losing marketshare to ARM for years. For cloud infrastructure servers (where the big bucks are) I know Amazon has been making a huge push towards ARM-based processors since the late 2010s — they offer them cheaper than servers with equivalent Intel chips, and in some cases they have better performance too, which is a major incentive for companies to switch. (Every company I've worked at has had a project to switch to the ARM-based servers.) Google just announced their own ARM-based processors for their cloud platform this year, and Microsoft has been offering them for a couple years too.
Part of it is that it's easier for these companies to customize (and manufacture?) their own ARM-based chipsets, which means they can offer them for a lower price vs Intel
I'm glad that instead of Funding CHILDREN'S FOOD or CHILD TAX CREDITS or HEALTHCARE we instead used our Taxpayer Dollars to pay Intel BILLIONS to lay people off!
So much for that chips act
this will surely help make a better processor
I might not be lucky enough to be born after world revolution, but it's pretty funny sometimes to get to see the capitalists shoot themselves in the foot
So much for bringing muh manufacturing to US back.
Watch their quality tank as they try to full those jobs with AI or by overworking their remaining employees
Watch their quality tank more, they already fucked up the last two generations of processor
Which, it must be stated, were basically the same as the generation previous to them.
will stop ‘non-essential work’
so they are going to fire everyone
Team red builds stay winning.
Battlemage will fix all the driver issues!
