Sen. Warren Calls Intel a Failing Company [pdf]

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Senator Warren criticizes Intel as a failing company in a letter to the Commerce Department, sparking discussion on the company's competitiveness and relevance in the tech industry.

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SilverElfin

4 months ago

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She’s right, and I say that as someone who doesn’t always agree with her. Intel has been a sinking ship riding on momentum and past success, while a stagnant team of employees draw paychecks on the way down to irrelevance. I know this is a cynical description but the reality is their products aren’t competitive and their moat doesn’t really exist in a world where many companies can build great chips. And most employees there don’t care about this terrible end to a once great company.

America taking a stake in this company instead of investing in new startups or in breaking up anticompetitive industries is a bad decision by this administration. It doesn’t do much to make America strong for a world where it competes with China and India.

osnium123Author

4 months ago

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Intel’s fabs are allegedly of strategic importance. Do you think that this investment should have been catered towards saving them or do you think that it just creates moral hazard?

SilverElfin

4 months ago

Good point. Maybe saving the fabs is a good idea. But I also wonder if it is only a temporary benefit. Is intel going to be the leader in this space in the future? I feel the cultural failures of the company make its decline inevitable. Either way we may need to fund new innovation but outside of Intel.

duxup

4 months ago

I see that statement on HN all the time.

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