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Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cancelled (anandtech.com)
From a report on AnandTech: In a bit of breaking news this morning, it appears that Intel has decided to cancel their Intel Developer Forum tradeshow going forward, including this summer's expected IDF17. The company says, "Intel has evolved its event portfolio and decided to retire the IDF program moving forward. Thank you for nearly 20 great years with the Intel Developer Forum! Intel has a number of resources available on intel.com, including a Resource and Design Center with documentation, software, and tools for designers, engineers, and developers. As always, our customers, partners, and developers should reach out to their Intel representative with questions." Previously, Intel had stated that there would not be an IDF in China this year. However an IDF was still expected in the US, albeit with a "new format."
They are obviously stuck and can't make the booths any smaller.
AMD is killing them or they need to rebuild there cpus with more cores and more pci-e to keep up.
That's the first casualty after Ryzen release. Intel is afraid and needs a timeout to get their shit together.
"intel has sufficiently beat the stuffing out of certain 3 letter competitors in the market, and no longer needs to shill its compiler. please return when our CEO returns to shore after having exhausted his supply of caviar. It is at this time we expect to begin IDF18, where we will scramble madly trying to renew competition against Ryzen."
Good people go to bed earlier.
Trade shows will double in size every year until the year a company realizes there's not much value in the show and discontinues it immediately. And yes, I realize IDF was not a trade show in name or intended purpose but that's pretty much what it became anyway.
It's lovely when you find out about your employer's news first on Slashdot.
Learn how to use punctuation, you dumbass. Btw, the word he chose was spelled correctly, it was just the wrong word. You have failed at punctuation and logic. You failed twice in a post 1/3 as long as the post he failed in once. Why are you criticizing him, or anybody?
Why does everyone have to bloody reach out these days like you're making contact with your estranged alcoholic mother who gave you up for adoption? How about you just fucking *contact* your intel representative?
You are asking the Internet to explain unwarranted criticism. And before you say it, I know that it's a tough job, and that nobody has to do it.
Businesses and professionals don't want new processors because of the lack of Windows 7 support and the abandoning of tick tock means waiting three years for performance increases instead of two. There's simply no reason to want to know the future of Intel's products.
www.intel.com is the Worst-designed Website in the World.
FFS, Slashdot !
btw? What are you, a teenage girl? Who the fuck writes like that?
To bad your mom didn't abort you.
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In a world of tiny incremental performance gains what is the point of having multiple trade shows per year? People aren't falling over themselves to upgrade CPUs. People aren't seeing massive gains in doing so. For the most part the choice of CPU doesn't even rank in many decision on what to get unless you're into extreme computing (games, high end work stations etc) and if that's the case you weren't at these trade shows anyway.
Other than notworking, throwing business cards around in the hope to get a job somewhere else, and running up a tab on the company credit card, did these shows actually provide any benefit for people attending them in the past 5 years?
> However an IDF was still expected in the US
As a US citizen, would you resist the chosenite as invaders or cheer them on as the tangible realization of christian zionism's millenial-tribulational promise of end times?
Uh, that's a common abbreviation for 'By the way' and has been in use on Usenet since the 90s - long before SMS. Just b'cos you're unaware of it doesn't mean that other people who aren't should be snuffed out of existence by the whims of thugs like you
Stories about that?
Why are they doing that? Lack of trust will kill sales.
I'd like to make this subject into an Ask Slashdot story. Can I quote you?
You said, "We covered this a while ago back when Libreboot's authors wrote an open letter to AMD..."
Do you have a reference to that? Was it this story? Message For AMD: Open PSP Will Improve Security, Hinder Intel