To be fair, they started missing all the timelines after Brian Krzanich succesfully executed his political coup as CEO of the company.
It's hard to overstate how toxic he's been to the company.
It's hard to overstate how toxic he's been to the company.
I followed Chromebook and laptop iGPU 3D performance very carefully from 2013-2019. Did you know Intel made ZERO iGPU performance improvements in this time period? The 2013 IRIS Pro 5200 and Haswell (4000 series) were a major highpoint for FIVE years. The 5000 Through 8000 Intel core cpus were highly stagnant and forgettable! Mostly they were slacking off with new designs like the Ynnn "thermal throttlemaker" Such chips ran fast for 3 secs then quit - completely! From 2013-2019 their marketing pinheads sure had a field day making up new names for the same old shit iGPUs year after year after year!
I have seen NO impact from Pat Gelsinger so far! Almost-competitive CPU's using 250% of the power of Ryzen 7000? Are you kidding us, Pat?
Kryzanich laid off a huge number of CPU architects in 2014 so they could have a much bigger and of course - more important marketing department! Who needs these useless digital designers when all they can do is reduce the mips per watt? I mean who cares about that? And while we're at it why not staff the boardroom of the world's greatest physics company with community college marketing people? Because, why not?
I don't see Apple returning to use the Intel i9-thighburner CPUs anytime soon!
I recall that he was entitled to double digit millions compensation if he resigned (which makes no sense to me so maybe I'm remembering this wrong). I'm sure there is an article somewhere on the web with all of the details and whether he actually got any of it or not but I would assume that he did. If only to make it easier for Intel to find its next CEO.
This is absolutely not true at all. Haswell was a major perf-per-watt improvement compared to previous Ivy Bridge. Broadwell and then Skylake both had significant improvements over their successors, not only in performance but also in power consumption and by adding necessary GPU tech to them. Then both Ice Lake and Tiger Lake had near 2x improvements in some industry standard benchmarks (e.g., Manhattan).
The difference between Intel's 2019 and 2013 integrated GPUs is much bigger than the difference between their 2019 and 2013 processors.
The layoffs happened all at once - not in phases. You had cases where a manager was suddenly told to inform his report that he is being laid off, only to then be told that the manager himself is being laid off.
As you can imagine, any time someone does a blunt top down approach like this, you lose a lot of critical people with no one in the team knowledgeable to take over.
No one saw it coming. Managers were not told in advance.
After big cuts everyone is covering their asses.
As far as I can tell Pat Gelsinger has not changed anything. The same hacks who ruined Intel are all still there, moving up the managerial ranks. Makes sense because Pat came from that culture… he practically defined it.