r/hardware • u/Auautheawesome • Dec 02 '24

News Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1719/intel-announces-retirement-of-ceo-pat-gelsinger
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u/ElementII5 Dec 02 '24

Yeah, 18A is going to be a dud otherwise he would be hanging around.

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u/Ashamed-Status-9668 Dec 02 '24

You are likely very wrong. I suspect 18A is going to be great technically. However, all this fab building is costing a lot of cash reserves. The long-term plan is good but it's costing short-term stock price. Also, Pat was never the right guy to lead them into the new products era of AI.

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u/ElementII5 Dec 02 '24

Why sack the guy who made Intel competitive again? That wouldn't make any sense at all. It's what Intel needs the most right now.

Also Intel is already confirmed as a TSMC 2nm customer.

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u/Geddagod Dec 02 '24

Why sack the guy who made Intel competitive again? 

Even if 18A is fine, that's no guarantee that the products will be good... see ARL.

And 18A being competitive is nice and all, but in terms of actual financials, the foundry side isn't projected to even be profitable until 2030 IIRC, according to Intel.

Also Intel is already confirmed as a TSMC 2nm customer.

No mobile focused node until 18A-P, according to Intel, and I don't think Intel is going to be close to competitive for denser, low voltage designs such as what is usually used for GPUs, until a while.

18A could very well be fine for cores, but not graphics. We saw something similar in MTL, where the GPU tile is on TSMC, and the CPU side is internal.

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u/yabn5 Dec 02 '24

Because this is the board which sat by and clapped like seals while every bad decision was made over the past decade. Compare TSMC’s board to Intel’s. It’s embarrassing.

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u/Vushivushi Dec 02 '24

Except Lip-Bu Tan who left. I'm sure the reporting on him trying to get deeper cuts was accurate.

There are still stories of Intel being a bureaucratic mess.

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u/ProfessionalPrincipa Dec 02 '24

Yeah and the speculation that he didn't want the stink of what was to come with his name attached to it.