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  • “It’s going to be hard. It will require painful decisions. But we will make them knowing it’s what we must do to serve our customers better as we build a new Intel for the future – and I have great confidence in the power of our team and our people to make it happen.”

    It’s gonna be hard, huh? For who, exactly? So much confidence in the power of their teams, yet they don’t seem to have any trouble cutting off large swathes of them. I can’t stand corporate speak and every syllable is dripping with it.

    One of the largest names in cpu chips and this is the thanks their workforce gets for helping them reach such a position. Fuck this guy


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    5 days ago

    As pointed out elsewhere around these comments, this looks like another classic example of enshittification. Just like everything that’s invented, it often starts out with a fairly solid design–it couldn’t succeed without that. Once the success is captured, they can start dissecting the design and figure out what parts can be made with cheaper materials (common example: replacing metal w/plastic) and/or cheaper tech. From that point it’s iterations of further cuts to material and tech until it’s the cheapest, flimsiest version that can still function well enough to outlast the warranty. I’ve been in my field long enough (appliance repair) to see generations come and go and it often runs that route. Sometimes design flaws get fixed during the process, but rarely does the product itself get better or more durable in the long run.