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by UncleOxidant 1133 days ago
> I don't think that less employees/layoffs directly correlates with less productivity.

True, AMD is able to spin new CPU designs with quite a few less people because they seem to be better at leveraging design automation. Jim Keller went to Intel to try to improve their design process and make it more productive, but it doesn't seem like he was able to turn the supertanker in a more productive direction. Lots of cultural inertia there.