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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. 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."

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    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.

  2. 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...