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Intel Now Operating On A Net Loss, $1.61 Billion In The Red

Gerard said:
People used to think this could never happen to intel as they were on top of the world, yet it did. Nvidia...you're next.
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Big companies always fail, inertia, bloat and risk aversion catch up with them eventually.
Intel has more than enough IP to survive but I don't expect X86 / X64 will be about in 50 years so unless they innovate the future looks tough.

We're running out of light to make smaller and smaller nodes so at some point improvements will have to come from a new architectural approach and I doubt that will be Intel, AMD or ARM. Likely some random upstart using AI developed designs and AI developed emulation for licenced legacy while native AI code is developed. Hundreds of startups will fail but one or more will succeed and enjoy their decade or two in the spotlight.
 
Mik3 said:
Where has the billions in profits over decades gone?
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Over the last decade they often went into:
"We are an engineering company but have zero new thoughts on how to diversify or thnik of any with new products"
Also known as: share buybacks.
In previous years going back to the 1990s, Intel had often tried to diversify often spending $billions at it (networking, Itanium, Atom panic after missing phones and tablets, Larabee, McAfee, plenty of stuff i can't remember). And most of those attempts at diversification were exactly that [failed] attempts.

x86 (which was a truly horrible ISA even in 1981) gave Intel a money printing machine, but almost anything else they touched? Mostly failure.
 
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They've already split it. Kinda.

The one most directly responsible is miles Bennet Dyson.
I mean NVIDIA.
Aint competition a biatch.


Anywho. Bad press can kill just as surely as a bullet

Nv 30B USD revenues last quarter.
I assume from the major tech companies,in their data centre product which accounted for around 87% gross rev.
 
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KompuKare said:
Over the last decade they often went into:
"We are an engineering company but have zero new thoughts on how to diversify or thnik of any with new products"
Also known as: share buybacks.
In previous years going back to the 1990s, Intel had often tried to diversify often spending $billions at it (networking, Itanium, Atom panic after missing phones and tablets, Larabee, McAfee, plenty of stuff i can't remember). And most of those attempts at diversification were exactly that [failed] attempts.

x86 (which was a truly horrible ISA even in 1981) gave Intel a money printing machine, but almost anything else they touched? Mostly failure.
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I hope they have enough to keep going it would be a disaster for us enthusiasts and the computer industry as a whole.
 
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