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Intel Vows Better Communication With Partners About CPU Shortage (crn.com)
Intel's channel organization is vowing increased communication and transparency with partners on issues such as the current CPU shortage, which has caused delays, price hikes and other challenges this year. From a report: In an exclusive interview with CRN, Todd Garrigues, director of partner sales programs at Intel, said better transparency about supply issues, new business opportunities and new technologies is one of the company's top priorities for partners heading into 2019. "We got some feedback -- some critical feedback if I'm honest -- from some partners through our advisory boards, and we're working hard to make sure we do better at that," he said. "The request, bluntly, was just to work harder at being transparent as close to real time as possible. And we took that to heart -- a lot of internal discussions on how we enable that."
One of the challenges, Garrigues said, has been engaging with Intel's broader base of partners that the company may not have one-on-one relationships with. To mitigate the issue, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company is investing more in its relationships with distributors to boost Intel's signal. "One of the big priorities I've placed on this year is really working very close with our distribution partners who do serve that broad channel base more directly," said Jason Kimrey, Intel's U.S. channel chief. "I would tell you that we are having much more direct, open transparent dialogue with them to help them plan and help our mutual customers plan to roadmaps and plan around the supply."
One of the challenges, Garrigues said, has been engaging with Intel's broader base of partners that the company may not have one-on-one relationships with. To mitigate the issue, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company is investing more in its relationships with distributors to boost Intel's signal. "One of the big priorities I've placed on this year is really working very close with our distribution partners who do serve that broad channel base more directly," said Jason Kimrey, Intel's U.S. channel chief. "I would tell you that we are having much more direct, open transparent dialogue with them to help them plan and help our mutual customers plan to roadmaps and plan around the supply."
If you can't supply the components your competitor will get more business.
you can't put a motherboard using "transparency" into a system. talk in lieu of product means nothing
Kind of like the world vowed never to buy Intel crap cpus after decades of stifled innovation, lies, backdoors, fraudulent benchmarks, industry bribery and suppression, IP whoring and price gouging? That kind of vow?
The other kind of vow haha. Intel still has it
intel is melting down time to go AMD!
And to be honest, with the way it's now clear that they've been gouging their customers for crazy money while AMD weren't able to compete in the top segment, I've had enough of their dishonest and greedy bullshit. Nothing but AMD for me from now on.
Intel could not govern the silicon market after of decades.
New enemies will come here for competing as by example Qualcomm, Apple, AMD, IBM, Huawei, etc.
Just the usual dishonesty you can expect from Intel. In addition, you can expect their CPUs to be overpriced, backdoored and full of critical security problems. You know, the usual things corporations with a dominant market position do because they have long since stopped caring about their customers.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Graphic Cards were in short supply because of crypto-coin mining. They just couldn't make enough cards to keep prices from zooming up. A bit after that it was RAM. Oh, all the fabs switched to NAND flash, so no RAM for you and it's going to cost. Now Intel hasn't enough 14nm capacity to keep up with processor demand?
All market manipulation. All of it.
Funny how *you* *could* actually change things, but you *chose* not to.
I suspect that that is true for everyone.
Because everyone of them is as spineless a follower as you are.
And it is actually only still like this because of your self-fulfilling prophecy.
So thank you very much. You would have been a fine citizen of the Third Reich.
You can announce better communication and publish roadmaps, that doesn't mean you'll be able to stick to them. The past is proof enough.
Take Apple for example. There's been no official announcement (and never will be, right until the launch of the computers) but we all know Apple is working on breaking away from Intel CPUs.
Take Microsoft as another example. They're already working on pushing the transition to ARM CPUs, they have Windows running on it and already selling hardware that doesn't use Intel CPUs.
If there's one thing you can be sure of it's that Intel's days are numbered*.
* I mean, Intel uses calendars just like the rest of us, right?
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I mean, surely you sort that shit out first, so OS vendors don't have to kludge their OSs (and slow things down) to work around something that should have popped up in unit testing the CPUs security features (unless of course, you meant for those holes to exist, which would raise other interesting and awkward questions)
While you're at it, please explain exactly what went wrong with the 10nm process.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
I means that there is a special slush fund available to certain vendors should they ask for it in lieu of using eg AMD in their products.
Coming up with such vacuous words that pretty much scream, âoeWe are not saying anything to anyone and youâ(TM)ll maybe get your chips, maybe.â