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Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cancelled (anandtech.com)

Posted by msmash on from the not-in-my-best-interest dept.

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."

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  1. Duh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    They are obviously stuck and can't make the booths any smaller.

    1. Re:Duh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I thought it was because the line widths were too small to allow developers in. That was a disaster last year...

  2. AMD is killing them or they need to rebuild there by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1, Interesting

    AMD is killing them or they need to rebuild there cpus with more cores and more pci-e to keep up.

  3. translation: by nimbius · · Score: 2

    "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.
    1. Re:translation: by cheesybagel · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think it's more like they have nothing new to announce with their constant respins of the same shit over and over. Heck NVIDIA still has their own event.

      How the mighty stumble.

  4. Moore's law of tech trade shows by JoeyRox · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:Moore's law of tech trade shows by kelemvor4 · · Score: 1

      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.

      Hush now. We all like to go enjoy a good trade show / "developer forum" when we can. Don't spoil it for anyone else!

    2. Re:Moore's law of tech trade shows by edxwelch · · Score: 1

      I thought Moore's trade show law was that the booth babes would double each year

  5. Corporate News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    It's lovely when you find out about your employer's news first on Slashdot.

  6. Lack of interest all around by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:Lack of interest all around by slew · · Score: 2

      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.

      More than likely, a lack of interests in sponsors meant the event was more money than their PR department could stomach.

      They pretty much clubbed their traditional partners in the knees and squeezed out all their margins by integrating everything and are now pivoting away from their old businesses. Asking what's left of their partners to pay for a tradeshow is just insult to injury and I'm sure many balked/walked. With their pivot, to new businesses (e.g., IoT, AI, etc), they probably found they couldn't convince any new sponsors to foot the same bill as the old partners (e.g., why would an IoT starter partner be pay as much as say Asus, or HP to sponsor IDF for Intel to talk about servers and platforms) and need to rethink the whole IDF idea.

      RIP...

  7. Re:Intel news: Stories I find scary. Latest first. by thegarbz · · Score: 1

    Great story. You fail to mention that AMD are doing the exact same thing.
    Actually using an ARM as a co-processor for this was AMD's idea in the first place. Intel originally baked it into their own silicon.

  8. Why even have it? by thegarbz · · Score: 1

    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?

  9. Re:AMD is killing them or they need to rebuild the by unixisc · · Score: 1

    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

  10. Lack of trust will kill sales. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 1

    Stories about that?

    Why are they doing that? Lack of trust will kill sales.

    1. Re: Lack of trust will kill sales. by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      There hasn't been trust in a long time. Look up the detail pages on coreboot and libreboot as to why effectively they are unsupported on post 2012 hardware. While Intel has the IME where they've baked their various "value added features" in, AMD has the PSP (Platform Security Processor), same pig different lipstick.

      The problem in general is that the approach hasn't translated to a lack of trust to people who buy these in bulk, as those very people used to pay extra to have management systems built into the motherboard. They see the inclusion of this locked down inaccessible code as a feature they no longer need to pay for rather than a security risk. They see this as being able to control and manage their systems, rather than the NSA being able to control and manage their systems.

      As long as the dollars keep flowing there's no reason to for them to not keep going down this path. We covered this a while ago back when Libreboot's authors wrote an open letter to AMD asking .... errr. pleading them to completely open the specs on the Ryzen platform. AFAIK nothing ever came of it.

  11. Interesting. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 1

    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

    1. Re:Interesting. by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Yes and no. Yes that was the one where Libreboot sent a letter to AMD but it's actually not the one I'm thinking about. There have been a few articles on /. on the Intel side of things with lots of useful stuff about AMD's versions in the comments. That's what got me looking into it in the first place. I think it was in 2015 or 2014.

      It would make a good Ask Slashdot, but I wouldn't quote me. I'm just some random nobody. Better to start with Libreboot FAQ if you're going to quote something:
      https://libreboot.org/faq.html...