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Intel CEO Tells Employees: 'We Are Going To Take More Risks' (cnbc.com)
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told employees on Tuesday that the company will take more risks going forward and he said change will be the "new normal." From a report: In an internal memo that was sent to CNBC, Krzanich acknowledged "innovation" inside Intel's client computing business -- its biggest segment -- but said the biggest opportunities are in the company's growth areas like connected devices, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving. "It's almost impossible to perfectly predict the future, but if there's one thing about the future I am 100 percent sure of, it is the role of data," Krzanich wrote. "Anything that produces data, anything that requires a lot of computing, the vision is, we're there." The memo also underscores the dramatic change in the nature of Intel's business as it approaches its 50th anniversary in July 2018. "We're just inches away from being a 50/50 company, meaning that half our revenue comes from the PC and half from new growth markets," Krzanich wrote.
Who is the "we" you are talking about Kemo Sabe?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I saw a couple get deleted in the Coinbase/Bitcoin Cash article last night. Yet other stuff like ASCII art and GNAA posts don't get removed, even when flagged for editor review.
For a long time, Slashdot opposed deleting any comments except with DMCA requests or breaking the rendering. Why has this changed? It's a slippery slope, once you start deleting comments.
And why is it so inconsistent? Many spam posts are never deleted even when flagged to notify the editors. Yet others disappear shortly after an article is posted. Slashdot needs to explain itself about deleting posts, especially because this deviates from the way things have been done for two decades.
Intel CEO Tells Employees: 'We Are Going To Take More Risks'
Means:
Employees and the shareholders are going to take more risks. If the bet pays off all the stock options and the incentive pay will trigger and champagne corks will fly in the executive suites. If the bet blows up, they will shrug their shoulders and say, "Well, at least we tried. OK then, let us find some other company".
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
He must mean doubling down on firmware enforced spyware.
Seriously, they sign CPU microcode, Intel GPU firmware, Intel ME firmware, Intel Machine learning devices... what next?
If he really wanted to take more risks, he would start offering skus with all of that signing disabled, via a hardware jumper, and wait to see what their users can generate will full access to the hardware.
There was a time when Intel built its hardware safety into the hardware, rather than risking its failure based off decisions made in software. Perhaps it is time for it to return to those development mantras.
Slashdot's owner is BizX, a company in the business of centralized internet currency. Their conflict of interest becomes very apparent in articles about competing decentralized technologies.
editors can mod posts below -1, iirc. this removes them from view
so like if msmash totally doesn't like what you have to say about bitcoin it goes away
it has been this way for a real long time, but used sparingly
maybe she for reals doesn't like anything you have to say about bitcoin
How about Intel starts producing Bitcoin mining ASICs? Can they compete?
This year. To a i5-7500. And that's plenty. They're gonna have to do something if they want to get me spending $300 on a CPU like I did back in the day.
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I think I saw the number of comments in the bitcoin article going down from 50 to 40. Wtf?
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
Intel has alway run off and tried new products. They then abandon them if it isn't a huge hit, often even before finished. How about keeping products around long enough to see if the seed will actually sprout.
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How much of this "risk taking" by Intel comes from AMD introducing the Ryzen processors and turning the processor market upside down this year?
Then this ISN'T we're going to take more risks.
This is....we're screwed...and I"m going to claim we "took risks" when it hits the fan.
I know I've seen several of my comments disappear even when browsing at -1. I'll see some comments that will still be hidden at -1, but you can still open them so long as somebody has responded to it and is still viewable at -1 by hitting the parent link though they still show up as -1. My comments were just anecdotes against comments like "there are no cases where x is true" that were politically sensitive. Didn't call a single person an idiot or use any slurs even. Just stuff like "here's a case where an insurance policy was canceled under obamacare where he said none would be".
The statement "slashdot doesn't delete comments" may be technically true in that they aren't removed from the database, but there's definitely things being done to make them effectively deleted in that there's no way to view it if nobody responded to it.
In the meantime, all employee bags will continue to be carefully inspected for stolen chips. Please remember to report to work 20 minutes early to make allowance for this necessary procedure.
they make computers enforce government purposes before being useful to workers.
cut the crap. if everyone avoided corporate computers and pocked an open arch made in a garage then INTEL would always be in business with government work.
(to employees): "You will be taking a risk, for when your division does not deliver profits, your position will be eliminated (you never thought the C-level was at risk, did you?)"
AMD has out classed Intel performance and IME is about to blow up in their faces so they need to find a way to embed themselves in a market that is unable to reject them. When the past decade of Intel processors suddenly become an unacceptable risk to businesses they are going to need a life raft.
Unfortunately (for them), Intel overprices all their parts, is very closed off (NDAs out the ass) and refuses to abandon x86 which why they will never be able to compete with ARM for embedded devices. The day they start popping out $2 chips without a power hungry ISA and provide datasheets will be the day that hell freezes over.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Sound like any other CEO talk I have heard.
Hey guys watch this!
It's still heyday, grab all profits while you can. I heard China is building its own CPU chips. What chinese CPU's hit the market at throw away price, Intel would just be in history books due to its IME enforced spyware. Disgusting dealing with these type of company forcing toxic stuff into its customers throat, like IME specifically.
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I am currently recovering from the 4th Intel SSD Enterprise Drive failure in the first year of a server's operation. The Array failed after 2 drives died over a course of a few days, and when a replacement drive was added and the array rebuilding the 3rd drive in a week failed, causing a large database corruption when we had to force online to get back up and running. (Thank god for DATTO).
Intel no longer stock the drive (1 year!!) and offered to give us the money for the drive back. Unfortunately it was a 1TB drive... which have been downsized to 960GB (my guess... error correction pool..) - but it's not a lunchtime job to rejig the geometry of a 6 drive raid array and reduce vhd's etc that will need to be shrunk.
If Intel are taking more risks... I dare not imagine ;)
See subject & these links (you can no longer get to & I have screenshots of them as submitted + onscreen as successful):
https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11453163&cid=55697385/ https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11453163&cid=55697181/ https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11453163&cid=55697813/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476821&cid=54218921/ https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11453163&cid=55697725/ https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11453163&cid=55698721/ https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11332773&cid=55516015/ https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11332773&cid=55515797/
* There's 8 solid evidences whipslash has deleted posts of mine above...
(Yes - mostly on hosts files, which as a webmaster losing adclicks, he doesn't like it & it's not "opensores" either (no way, no Google EFast will be made of MY code & if advertisers & webmasters wouldn't infect/track/slow us using USERS' ELECTRIC POWER TO DO SO? I never would've made it))
So I don't doubt others' posts have been DELETED also...
APK
P.S.=> I keep descriptions & screenshots of each by the way which per my subject, I bet him a million U.S. dollars on it - he ran... apk
All LGA 2066 class cpus have full PCI-E lanes like AMD
No raid keys like AMD
More pci-e on desktop CPU's Like AMD
high-end desktop cpus can use ECC like AMD
Intel is a de facto monopoly. Yes, there's AMD and ARM is starting to gain a foothold, but x86 basically rules the industry for now. It sounds like the CEO is trying to figure out what to do about it. And when CEOs figure things out, the reality is that management consultants tell them what to do.
I've seen it happen a bunch of times. Management consulting firms are basically charging millions for a "digital transformation starter pack" for any company whose deployment processes aren't sufficiently DevOps-y. In Intel's case, I'm sure they're basically telling them to start acting like a startup, move fast and break things, etc. The MO is the same everywhere -- the uber-shark sales team sells the CEO the starter pack, a 25 year old with a fresh Ivy League MBA is put on a plane to deliver some PowerPoints, and a team in India is sent all the "work."
I'm sure Intel has its share of bloat, and there probably are a lot of people hiding out in nice safe positions. I know a bunch of people who work for HP (now HPE) who say that the ratio of useless to useful employees is still like 3:1, even after all the mass-firings. But one thing I worry about is that in the rush to be more agile, break things, etc. they're going to fire everyone who knows the fundamentals. After all, to look like a startup, your employees need to be under 30, wearing T-shirts and board shorts, and have product stickers all over their MacBook Pro lids. Any of those stuffy old electrical engineers who make things actually happen are overpaid and should be fired, amirite? :-)
Coprocessors need to get some bandwidth to main memory, or at least to sockets. Either let us use QPI or start supporting NVLink. Or whatever AMD has.
When Intel takes "risks", it tends to come up with things like the iAPX 432, i860, Itanium, and the 80286 incarnation of protected mode. This probably won't end well.
"You will know what it's like to lose: To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail all the same. Dread it, RUN from it - Destiny STILL arrives..." - Thanos
* As I come "warping in" to /., right past his scripted attempted blocks of my posts like his defenses were not there @ all whatsoever...
(Just like Thanos in the new upcoming "Avengers INFINITY WAR" @ position 1:07 on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcxV-AA07tc/
APK
P.S.=> "... Fun isn't something one considers when BALANCING THE UNIVERSE" APK Hosts File Engine 10++ 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/ "but THIS https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11409789&cid=55632339/ "does put a smile on my face!"... apk
Keep your spying "management engines" to yourself.
I don't want them in the devices I use and many people share that opinion.
People that will ultimately decide where you will be -- not your "vision".
Intel is by no means a monopoly in its industry.
That industry is semiconductors - *not* general-purpose computing.
There are many other companies and fabs for sub-GHz devices that get used far more than x86. ARM is eating Intel's lunch where it matters and they only LICENSE their semiconductor designs.
Its been happening for a while now.
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The mods are pretty fucking corrupt, but it's been that way for a long time.
APK your posts get deleted because you are an abusive spamming lying retard
While I personally think your particularly abusive posts should be left so everyone can see you make a complete ass of yourself and know what kind of person you really are I guess others flag them for what they are
Now please continue making your self look ever more retarded with your inability to read and write english
I await one of your standard sub par retorts which have been debunked widely and repeatedly
I guess you just like to show how you are a whiny little retard, now go beat off to Alex Jones
they will put a loot box to use CPU
I see that retard APK believes fantasy is reality and is pretending that he lives in a movie again.
I wonder if he also realizes that his hosts file engine BS providing actual security is fantasy as well.
In both cases he is well aware of what it feels like to loose as like the sorry loser he is will declare that he won but secretly cries himself to sleep wondering why everyone takes him for the fool he is.
We mock you because we care, well not really it is because it is fun and you are an easy dumb target.
You are unintelligent and talking way out of your league. Please stop posting to Slashdot.
Intels Neural Network sticks are closed source, as is the SDK for them.
They have a github page, but most people don't realize not every repo on github has to be licensed as open source and the LICENSE file for the ncsdk is decidedly NOT open source or libre.
If you think getting trapped on wintel is bad, imagine getting trapped on their machine learning chips. It will be like cuda all over again.
whipslash you project who the liar is (you unable to back your bs) and it put a smile on apk's face https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11509041&cid=55776981/ that made me laugh too it was so apt. Now, tone done on the raging foaming at the mouth profanity laden rants ok? It's not helping your case with users having to wipe your spittle of their faces, hahahahahahaha!
"I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Your software is well written, functional. The Host File Engine performs exactly as promised" - by mmell February 16, 2017
"I've never tried to belittle (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good" - by BronsCon February 11, 2016
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant August 10, 2015
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg September 25, 2015
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock September 09, 2015 (#50489401)
"I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home" by OrangeTide December 01, 2017
"I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK" by 110010001000 October 27, 2017
APK
P.S.=> This DID put a smile on my face https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11509041&cid=55776981/
So I have many great apps installed on my smartphone. They are simple, do exactly what they are supposed to do. One click and done.
Back on my desktop my screen real estate is about 20x larger and I have completely different tasks and thus requirements. Here I want my apps to be comprehensive and verstatile.
In short there is no common base.
@Apple. Bad idea. Yet another one.
Sorry retard APK you are wrong again as always.
I'm not whipslash, or any of the other countless individuals you incorrectly assign posts to.
I do see that you are now trying to make your fantasy reality again by pretending to post as not your self to make it look like you have support.
You do this frequently but your inability to actually write gives you away so everyone knows it is you just making your self look ever more foolish.
The linking to your own posts mere inches above shows your lack of intelligence as the link never actually proves anything other than you are retarded.
Like I said one of your standard sub par retorts which have been debunked widely and repeatedly.
As long as he's correct in his assessment, I don't see why the messenger needs to be shot.
Besides, what has Intel got to lose now? They have fired most of their good engineers and replaced them with low-cost employees. Every cost-costing method has been done, there's no innovative power left, so the only thing they can do now, is risk everything and fail.
NIIGER ASStOCIATION
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/paul-otellinis-intel-can-the-company-that-built-the-future-survive-it/275825/
OK, so maybe Intel can reinvent like Microsoft. But I doubt it. I was part of the post Otellini McAfee acquisition, experienced Intel culture and LRP (long range planning - 5 years) first hand. I don't see risk taking part of their culture. Go read the Atlantic article. I'd guess ZERO has changed internally since his time. And a whole lot of stuff externally, where no one really cares if your Azure or AWS cloud or Packet servers run Intel inside. No one. So this looks like the first of three envelopes by the CEO. I'm sad to see them go, but, they're gone as their former self, just don't know it yet.
As a former employee in their wireless division, I have to say that they hired the wrong CEO after Otellini left (David Permutter should be CEO), and at the time, they hired Aicha Evans to run wireless. She blew through $12B in R&D with so much rampant duplication, and a staff that would rather fight each other, than Qualcomm. She adamantly refused to execute operational reviews even after billions were lost. The management staff at Intel does not know how to "block and tackle" to design the right products, and do it on-time. This company has been riding on the coat-tails of their semiconductor process superiority at the expense of everything else. Now their competitors (Samsung, TSMC) have caught up, and can also execute chip design more effectively.. This company is riding on inertia, and slowly sinking beneath the waves.. it's sad.. But I dare say, it won't get fixed until "BK" and "AE" are sent packing.
It's the time of year when CEO's (and other PHB's) are expected to give some sort of "inspirational" message to the serfs, so the result is often this sort of unbelievable nonsense.
Intel is probably staffed by a lot of very clever people who won't be taken in by this at all.
I work for a huge multinational too, and our CEO told us how much he values our contribution, which we all thought was hilarious.
Look it is one more of APK's old tired retorts when someone call out his bullshit. /. users that he takes out of context or the owners have since disclaimed (see BronsCon's current sig for proof).
He is never able to actually respond to criticism of his work.
He is unable to counter when others point out the obvious failings of what he is trying to do.
So instead he trots out some quotes from
Next he might point out that hosts was suggested for security by some old AOL radio program from the 90s or some other such crap.
Too bad hosts is a very bad black list and APKs software is a bloated complex mess to handle it.
Yes it is bloated and overly complex as I and others have pointed out many times as it is just a file aggregator.
It offers some security but it is comparable to an AV scanner that checks for viruses by looking at file names and also is out of date.
By some security I mean security that a small child could figure out how to circumvent in short order, so no real security at all.
Retard APK can never answer these and the many other legitimate criticisms of his work, statements, and himself so instead he deflects, distracts, attempts to change the subject, or declares that he won without ever actually winning or even providing legitimate support of his point.
He must like getting beaten like an ugly redheaded step-child
APK proves he is a retard again
He managed to clean up his writing ability some but it is still piss poor.
His style that he just can't shake is still a giveaway.
Still linking to his previous comments, another giveaway
Blind support of what APK says, yet another dead giveaway that APK is posting to pretend that people actually support him.
As always support seems to come from AC posts, never register user accounts, another sign that there isn't a non APK person behind it.
He still laughs at the things he says like a retard laughing at his own jokes that no one else finds funny, a standard APK style
At this point just give up APK and sign your bullshit or are you too embarrassed by it to claim your feeble minded work.
It is no worse than your feeble minded; hosts file engine, your security articles, or any other advice you have given out that has been torn to pieces countless times.
Don't worry APK, I'm sure some day your parents will stop regretting not aborting you.
"APK your posts on this & the hosts file posts, & more, have never been in error &/or bad advice" by BlueStrat June 21, 2017
"APK... I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." by bmo October 15, 2015
"I would like to note that I find your hosts file admirable." by vel-ex-tech November 24, 2015
"that APK guy, I use his host file" by rogoshen1 March 03, 2015
"APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good" by Culture20 November 17
"APK, I know people give you a lot of shit regarding hosts, but please don't ever stop" by nasredin June 12, 2015
"I love APK!The power of the hostfile compels you!" by ratboy666 January 29, 2016
"(APK) is still right, a hosts file really does work. It even blocked a some of the video ads that were inserted into a stream" by OrangeTide February 10, 2016
"You need APK's hosts file" by Teun August 06, 2014
APK
P.S.=> See my subject & pay attention to 1st one above vs. your bs
Will they be taking business risks or just more risks with my security?
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AMD currently owns the video game console market and Arm owns phones & tablets. That leaves Intel with a monopoly over the shrinking PC market. Today at work I had to use an intranet Web App that didn't work in IE, only Chrome. Apple is moving to get away from Intel too. If they don't do something they're going to be about as relevant as Motorola & MOS Technologies are: Still around in some industrial apps but largely the domain of a few hard core hobbyists.
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on single threaded performance, which for workstations is still what matters. And they're competitive on multi-thread performance. They overpriced their parts because AMD has only been competitive since Ryzen launched. Before that the 8350 couldn't touch a mid range i5 let alone an i7 and had twice the power draw.
I just upgraded and went with Intel. Yes, the Intel CPU cost a little more (got an i5-7500 for $150 shipped) but I also paired it with a solid mobo for $70. I can't do that on AMD. Buy a cheap AMD board and you'll regret it for a variety of reasons. Right now the cost savings on AMD gets eaten up buying a nicer mobo...
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