Former Intel love rat Krzanich finds his calling, lands at biz that sells tech to car dealers

Former Intel boss Brian Krzanich who split from Chipzilla months ago – after a past fling with a fellow employee came to light – is to head up a business that sells tech to dealerships. CDK Global provides stuff – including an e-commerce platform – for 28,000 automotive, heavy truck, agriculture, marine, and construction …

[JohnFen]

Wow

I worked at Intel during a good part of the BK days and remember his influence well. It amazes me to see how far he's fallen here.

[John Smith 19]

The car dealership SW biz is a few players, tightly locked in customers

who have to put up with the SW the mfg require them to use, regardless of how buggy it is.

IOW it's a perfect fit for the former Intel CEO.

Competition.

They've heard of it.

[SVV]

Del Boy?

Arthur Daley was the sheepskin jacketed used car salesman you were looking for in your erroneous cultural reference.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Del Boy?

Or Terry Tibbs

[Insert sadsack pun here]

Re: Del Boy?

Or maybe Swiss Toni

[HmmmYes]

Re: Del Boy?

Ha I thoguht Swiss Toni too.

A car is like a beutiful shy intern .... need to grasp the wheel firmly and ease yourself in.

[diodesign]

Re: Del Boy?

Del also wore a sheepskin jacket - and BK isn't a used car salesman, he's selling stuff to other businesses and traders. That makes him more Del than Arthur, you plonker.

C.

[_LC_]

"Love rat"?

The "love rat" was the excuse. It's sad to see attempts, to cement this as "true history", now.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "Love rat"?

The story did contain ‘allegedly’ with a link to another Reg piece that questioned the reason given for his departure. Some people are never happy.

[_LC_]

Re: "Love rat"?

You can read or hear that Hitler was allegedly a vegetarian quite a lot. He wasn't. Get the difference?

[john bertelsen]

from a CDK customer

i used to work for a CDK customer. Their software is is a non homogeneous mass getting more complicated all the time. Their prices are humongous once they've got you. I do say their support is excellent, but some of it is now being off-shored.

They are bleeding customers to newer more nimble competitors.

[HmmmYes]

Re: from a CDK customer

There's two kinds of 'good' support:

One, the good kind - where a product is well supported.

Two, the bad kind ,where the product is so shit the support are well versed with the various fuck ups.

[[e-mail]]

Does not seem right for love interests to have anything to do with employment unless there was coercion?

But BK was a chemist, and Intel needs a Computer Science specialist instead. Too many engineering types already. They need someone who can dump the old x86 design, make a cpu with lots more uniform registers. And either embed or emulate for backward compatibility. And cores are stupid because shared memory is the bottleneck you want to avoid.

[John Smith 19]

"They need someone who can dump the old x86 design, "

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Not going to happen.

You are correct. Amdahl's law has not been repealed.

The ICL1900 series had a small register set, each with specific tasks, which were "shadowed" or cached. AIUI higher performance models had deeper caches. Because of the specific tasks for each register this gave a very high hit rate. It's a strategy Intel could consider, but it'll probably be tough implement.

[katrinab]

My guess is the someone who can dump the old x86 design will be Apple, by doing something similar to their move from PPC to x86.

[HmmmYes]

No.

A comptuer scientist will just keep rewtiing algothims, in MX.

Intel needs to be run by a bunch of people who write software.

Thats what there chip is used for.

No point having chemists or ltihographics. Yes, they are very important for production but not stragegy.

Intel are now beyond hte point of small die/economic pay off.

There's no more bail outs if they fuck up like they did with P4.

[Spazturtle]

"They need someone who can dump the old x86 design"

"And either embed or emulate for backward compatibility."

They have already done that, all modern x86 CPUs are internally RISC cores with a x86 decoder.

One of the big advantages of doing this over simply switching to another arch is that the internal instruction set is not stable, it can be changed with each new model in order to maximize efficiency and performance.

[Anonymous Coward]

"They have already done that, all modern x86 CPUs are internally RISC cores with a x86 decoder."

Indeed, and this has been the case- at least for Intel- for well over twenty years(!) now, ever since the Pentium Pro (and its consumer version, the Pentium II) launched in the mid-90s.

[CPU]

Car dealers, yea, now there's a market sector with tumbling sales figure- good luck with that Brian ;-)