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Intel to lay off 16,000 workers?
The Register ^ | Thursday 1st June 2006 | Tony Smith

Posted on 06/01/2006 12:27:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Is Intel about to rid itself of 16,000 workers - just over 16 per cent of its global workforce - later this month? So suggest whispers doing the rounds among Silicon Valley's technology community at the moment.

That's what blogger Omid Rahmat claims (http://omid.tomshardware.com/2006/05/intels_amd_mome.html?www.reghardware.co.uk) at least. It's certainly no secret that Intel is examining every part of its business for signs of under-performance - CEO Paul Otellini said as much in April this year.

"In terms of non-performing businesses, anything with a bracket will be looked at," he said. "It would be too simplistic to simply do a reduction in force," he added, surely implying the business review will come in addition to job cuts?

So far, Intel has closed down a research facility in Glasgow, and analysts have suggested it will drop its Flash memory and comms chip operations. In November 2005, Intel partnered with Micron to form a Flash-making JV in part to supply Apple with Flash chips.

According to a TGDaily report (http://tomshardware.com/tgdaily/?www.reghardware.co.uk), Otellini will speak to the troops on 15 June - a likely date, it suggests, for the redundancies announcement.

Intel currently employs around 99,900 people around the world.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: business; economy; intel; layoffs; semiconductor; siliconvalley
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To: nickcarraway
I wonder if your pinkslip will include the following:

Intel Chime

21 posted on 06/01/2006 1:10:01 PM PDT by edpc
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To: TommyDale

Except that Intel's new processors which be coming out in this summer will be far superior to anything has to offer now or contemplated and will also run much cooler. The good thing is that Intel processors are manufactured in the USA. All AMD processors are manufactured in Germany in Fabs that are heavily subsidized by Germany.


22 posted on 06/01/2006 1:11:30 PM PDT by Rock N Jones
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To: Rock N Jones
Except that Intel's new processors which be coming out in this summer will be far superior to anything has to offer now or contemplated and will also run much cooler.

So the hype runs. We've seen this with every processor ever introduced.

Conroe probably won't raise the dead, contrary to the hype. I do like the Core Duos though. They should have done those a long time ago.
23 posted on 06/01/2006 1:14:54 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: xrp

Sun will be fine - they will be a smaller company, selling to customers in a space where relability, stability and performance are important. we had a drive go bad on a Sun recently - it had not been rebooted in 6 years. try that with anything else.


24 posted on 06/01/2006 1:19:54 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: oceanview
.we had a drive go bad on a Sun recently - it had not been rebooted in 6 years.

Managers, Directors, VPs don't think about those things when they sign a check for a bunch of i386 platform harddrives @ $300 per harddrive vs whatever [higher quality] SUN drives. Being a techie myself, I know what you stated is true, but the uneducated, immediate cost driven managers don't understand.

25 posted on 06/01/2006 1:23:51 PM PDT by xrp (Fox News Channel: MISSING WHITE GIRL NETWORK)
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To: Leatherneck_MT
Sony and Intel

Now there's a pairing that gives me chills, and not the good kind.

26 posted on 06/01/2006 1:24:24 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Why isn't there an "NRA" for the rest of my rights?)
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To: TommyDale
They used to be lower priced. At least on the typical consumer processors. I'm not so sure any more. Tom's Hardware had
a review, and said that with the AM2s, the price/performance differential (of up to 30%) is gone.

However, the AMD does win out on energy/performance.

I just bought a P4, my first Intel after two AMD purchases. The thing runs hot, but I can OC it (and the DD2) by 10% in "normal" weather.

27 posted on 06/01/2006 1:32:39 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: oceanview

AIX?


28 posted on 06/01/2006 1:44:40 PM PDT by aliquis
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To: TommyDale
And of course, this has nothing to do with the AMD 64-bit devices kicking their butt...

Probably not. We've already heard they're getting out of the embedded market. I think they're just trying to concentrate on fewer things like their new line of chips which will, for the first time in years, not have its butt kicked by AMD.

29 posted on 06/01/2006 1:55:12 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: nickcarraway

Intel is in too many businesses. I've never figured out why they made motherboard chipsets or motherboards - both of which are low-margin businesses. Then there was that fiasco where Intel insisted on the Rambus memory standard because it owned a big chunk of Rambus stock, only to back down when the total system cost of Intel systems with Rambus memory got too out of whack. Intel is all over the map except where it needs to be - the king of the CPU world. The Pentium 4 and the Itanium were both expensive fiascos. AMD showed that you could use a lineal descendant of the x86 standard and beat Intel at its own game. Intel had to spend all that extra cash and then end up using x86-based chips (Pentium 3/M) in its laptops, because the Pentium 4 architecture required too much power. Intel simply needs to hire AMD's CEO and start doing what it used to do - stick to its knitting and clean its CPU competitors' clocks.


30 posted on 06/01/2006 2:27:25 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: nickcarraway

AMD ain't exactly eatin' Intel's lunch just yet, but they've definitely eroded their market share to a painful degree. Intel has to take action, no doubt.


31 posted on 06/01/2006 2:40:25 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: Zhang Fei

I'd forgotten the Rambus fiasco. A guy I worked with built a system with Rambus and he was quite surprised when he found out that he had to buy blank memory chips (Rambus RIMM Continuity module..amazing what Google will come up with) because the system wouldn't run with empty memory slots.


32 posted on 06/01/2006 3:36:10 PM PDT by stylin_geek (Liberalism: comparable to a chicken with its head cut off, but with more spastic motions)
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To: Rock N Jones
will be are the key words. Right now, Intel is getting their clock cleaned.
33 posted on 06/01/2006 3:58:37 PM PDT by TommyDale (Stop the Nifongery!)
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To: TommyDale

Technology doesn't stand still and I would rather an American company come out on top than a German one!


34 posted on 06/01/2006 4:16:48 PM PDT by Rock N Jones
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To: kinoxi

Several years ago GTE got rid of over 22K in one fell swoop (I was one of the “swooped”).


35 posted on 06/01/2006 4:33:05 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: doc1019

sorry to hear, you get back to doin the jobs illegals cant do yet ;) ?


36 posted on 06/01/2006 4:38:09 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi

Yea! Unswooped withing two weeks of being swooped.


37 posted on 06/01/2006 4:47:37 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: aliquis

perhaps.


38 posted on 06/01/2006 5:06:46 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Rock N Jones; TommyDale
The good thing is that Intel processors are manufactured in the USA. All AMD processors are manufactured in Germany in Fabs that are heavily subsidized by Germany.

Technology doesn't stand still and I would rather an American company come out on top than a German one!

Um, I know I'm late to the thread (work late, have to catch up on an entire days worth of threads), but...

AMD is an American company based out of Sunnyvale, California. Both AMD and Intel have manufacturing plants around the world, and both have plants in the US.

Depending on the life cycle of the plants (i.e., as new manufacturing processes are created and installed at different locations), processors are made wherever they can cost effectively implement new technologies. Meaning, it's not efficient to upgrade every manufacturing plant, EVERYTIME a new procedure is developed for chips. They upgrade where it makes sense.

Several factors are at play. How large the facilities are (for the ability to mass produce), how old the current technology is at the locations (relatively newer facilities can be switched to lesser important products that can use the existing technology while upgrading obsolete plants to the latest technology), etc., etc.

Both AMD and Intel change the location of where their flagship chips are manufactured and they always will. Both have produced chips here in the States and both have produced them in other countries (See Intel Ramps Up for Pentium 4 Assembly in China and Intel to build second facility in China . Both WILL produce them in the States in the future.

AMD is building a new large campus in Austin, Texas (See AMD Lone Star Campus. Intel is heavily focusing on building their R&D centers in China (See Intel support page, Intel Ramps R&D Efforts in China). Should we now switch to buying AMD chips because of their new center being built in Texas and stop buying Intel chips since they are outsourcing their manufacturing and R&D jobs to the Chinese now?

As far as the new Intel flagships coming out soon, well, we'll see just how good they are when they actually arrive. We've all seen Intel's hype before. **Cough**Itanium**Cough**

39 posted on 06/02/2006 5:46:20 AM PDT by CellPhoneSurfer
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To: CellPhoneSurfer

When I worked in Silicon Valley, both AMD and Intel were customers. AMD has come a long way in the past decade.


40 posted on 06/02/2006 10:52:50 AM PDT by TommyDale (Stop the Nifongery!)
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