Re: Intel are surprisingly well run
"Intel are surprisingly well run (consider for comparison, practically any other tech manufacturer)."
You cannot be serious.
Name two successes outside x86 in the last decade. One would do.
Even in x86, they're far from brilliant outside their core comfort zone. Their integrated graphics have rightly been a long standing joke, as have their x86-market desktop/laptop NICs (hands up who's got a business class PC with a Broadcom rather than Intel NIC).
Their efforts in the x86 SoC market are laughable; their losses in the mobile market have been so huge and so widely reported that they had to re-org the company to hide the "contra revenue" in a bigger organisation where it would be less visible.
e.g.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186367-intels-mobile-division-has-lost-an-astonishing-2-billion-dollars-so-far-this-year
And earlier this month we heard the much-vaunted "tick tock" strategy wasn't working quite right this time round.
And then there was IA64. But let's not go there.
Surprisingly well run?
Intel. The x86 company.
The bigger shame is that AMD still can't compete against this level of competence.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
