Gelsinger: ‘Intel lost its way’

“Intel lost its way, and we had non-technical leadership of the most important technology company in America for a decade and a half.” – Pat Gelsinger

[davep]

The importance of this goes beyond Intel and the US, the world needs Intel to succeed. All the best

[zmitch]

non-technical. proven leadership. quality company, large capacity, higher expectations. I knew a 45 dollar stock could peak 200 once or twice. good customer rapport

[jessetwu]

This guy is part of the problem. He was with Intel as its SVP and CTO for 30 years. I am sick and tired of hearing all the BS from people like him.

[lee-dxoz]

The great CEO in my life from Samsung!

[boston]

Talking like a politician. I want a CEO talking.

[mediawow]

The great CEO job of going to the unstable place to visit TSMC : )

[DanielLiljeberg]

You can look at Intel's history, their anti competitive behaviour, their stagnation in the CPU space and from a capitalism stand point think "they did what they could to do as little as possible and make as much as possible... awesome". But when you have something so ubiquitous as the x86 CPU that powers much of the world and you only have two companies allowed to make them you can't think like a capitalist anymore. This duopoly that can't even be challenged carry a special weight of responsibility. It's not only about making as much money as you can.

But then again... the best thing to do would be to let x86 and x86-64 (AMD64) be free for other to use so we can get competition from anyone. Then you can focus on your money... and others can have the opportunity to challenge your stagnant behaviour.

You should never think of a company as your friends. But AMD has shown through the years to do more for the consumer. Most likely because they had to... but still. They brought us cheaper 486 cpus, they brought us multi core x86 cpus, they brought us 64-bit x86 cpus, when Intel became complacent when they took the lead back with cpu's like the 2600K and kept releasing small incremental 4 cores cpu upgrades AMD gave us 8 and 16 core consumer cpus. And they kept pushing it... Sure Intel responded, like they have always done... but they didn't lead.

With that said, if AMD were to become dominant I'm sure their innovation would slow down... so as stated, perhaps it's time to let more parties into the x86 game.