[esens]

Intel's strategy is often to hire the best talent of their competitors. Case in point Jim Kelly from AMD who did a stint at Intel after the success of Zen.

This guy was not the head of the M1 processor initiative from my readings, but he was involved in it.

[sitkack]

I think I got this from the HN mythology, but it was a story about a consultant who was just one in a long string of consultants that all said the same thing.

Intel strikes me as a company that basically needs a chorus of folks to sing to them, "change your tune, you know what to dooooo"

Whatever beef Jim had, they should probably just fix that. Intel is just a really fancy machine shop with a small design firm on the side that has the blue prints for something that lots of people want. Until they don't.

Open your fabs, open your engineering services and you will be the largest force in semiconductors. Hell, even if Intel's designs were 100% open source, they could still smoke.

[olliej]

Shouldn't that be part of the strategy for every company regardless of field?

You want the best people, often times they're already employed by your competitor as they also want the best in the field.

In fact there was a big lawsuit a few years about big SV companies agreeing not to recruit each other's employees.

[n7pdx]

That is actually Apple's strategy. They always set up sites around their competitors, San Diego (QCOM), Orlando (AMD), Austin (lots), Portland (Intel).

Intel on the other hand really couldn't care less about talent. Their Portland site has been around for decades and Intel has knowingly underpaid the engineers there the entire time, because it was a one-company town ever since Tektronix became irrelevant. Intel is all about hiring C and D-hitters at discount rates so managers can build an empire of loyal slaves with no options.