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by tjwebbnorfolk 25 days ago
Intel struggled because they bet the company that Moore's law was over back in ~2014, and instead of upgrading their fabs to EUV they sent the money back to shareholders.

They forgot Moore's main lesson: only the paranoid survive. They thought they could coast, and it nearly killed them.
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aleph_minus_one 25 days ago
> They forgot Moore's main lesson: only the paranoid survive.

"Only the Paranoid Survive" is rather a quote and book title by Andrew S. Grove.

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tjwebbnorfolk 23 days ago
Yes you're right, my mistake. Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel as opposed to Moore.
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xadhominemx 24 days ago
That is not even close to correct.
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tjwebbnorfolk 23 days ago
I'm very interested to hear what exactly I said was incorrect.
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xadhominemx 22 days ago
Intel made bad engineering decisions. There was not under-investment in fabs or R&D.
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tjwebbnorfolk 15 days ago
Yes, their primary "bad" decision was to try to squeeze as much as possible out of DUV so that they didn't have to spend a ton of money upgrading to EUV.

This was a business decision, not an engineering decision.

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