[Joel_Mckay]

Their acquisition of Altera seemed to harm both companies irreparably.

Any company can reach a state where the Process people take over, and the Product people end up at other firms.

Intel could have grown a pair, and spun the 32 core RISC-V DSP SoC + gpu for mobile... but there is little business incentive to do so.

Like any rotting whale, they will be stinking up the place for a long time yet. =)

[beacon294]

Could you elaborate on the process people versus product people?

[bgmeister]

I assume they're referring to Steve Jobs' comments in this (Robert Cringely IIRC) interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4dCJJFuMsE (not a great copy, but should be good enough)

[Joel_Mckay]

Partly true, Steve Jobs had a charismatic tone when describing these problems in public.

Have a great day, =3

[beacon294]

Oh yeah, this got rehashed as builders versus talkers too. Yeah, there's a lot of this creative vibe type dividing. It's pretty complicated, I don't even think individual people operate the same when placed in a different context. Usually their output is a result of their incentives, so typically management failure or technical architect failure.

[basementcat]

I would argue the fabrication process people at Intel are core to their business. Without the ability to reliably manufacture chips, they're dead in the water.

[Joel_Mckay]

You mean manufacturing "working chips" is supposed to be their business.

It is just performance art with proofing wafers unless the designs work =3

[Joel_Mckay]

It is an old theory that accurately points out Marketing/Sales division people inevitably out-compete product innovation people in a successful firm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_exclusion_principl...

And yes, the Steve Jobs interview does document how this almost destroyed Apples core business. =)

[beacon294]

Just to clarify do you mean employees marketing and selling their innovation skills or people literally in marketing and sales?

[Joel_Mckay]

Shameless self-promotion is usually not a problem in most commercial settings. Sad, but true... lol =)

Letting Marketing/Finance people set technological product trajectories sooner or later becomes detrimental to large firms.

i.e. the product line becomes disconnected from the consumers actual experience of utility, novelty, and perceived scarcity. =)