Intel brings back workers’ free coffee, seeking to stem morale decline

What percentage of the market does Intel still have ?

Of what? It's kind of hard to figure out what the "market" is. ARM has everything now from low-power embedded to phone/tablet processors and PCs - especially from Apple licensed to use their architecture. Then there's AMD.

Intel still has their food in different markets. PC microprocessors. Lower power (Atom). Server processors (Xeon). Integrated graphics. Even as a semiconductor foundry.

This mentions the share of desktop PC processors. Not sure what the definition is, but I'm thinking it excludes Apple and possibly Linux machines. They basically only consider AMD and Intel. Intel is still the leader by far, but AMD is gaining a lot of market share.

 
Because they can no longer use anticompetitive tactics to suppress challenges to their prior monopoly. This should have happened 20 years ago in the Pentium 4 and RAMBUS days, but due to shady practices and a miracle chip out of their Israeli mobile division, they stayed afloat.
Intel Israel also gave us the Core 2 family’s architecture that lives on even today with the 13th gen or whatever Intel calls it these days. And that was closer to the Pentium Pro of the 1990s(and the Pentium M from the 2000s) than the failed Pentium 4 of the 2000s.

Now, ARM - not AMD via Apple and Qualcomm are giving Intel a headache with CPUs that use less power but more performance. Nvidia is safe for now until the GPUs used with ARM using PowerVR(Apple) or former AMD IP(Qualcomm’s Adreno - which is Radeon spelled differently) can match their edge. Apple isn’t using Nvidia’s GPUs since ditching Intel.
 
Of what? It's kind of hard to figure out what the "market" is. ARM has everything now from low-power embedded to phone/tablet processors and PCs - especially from Apple licensed to use their architecture. Then there's AMD.

Intel still has their food in different markets. PC microprocessors. Lower power (Atom). Server processors (Xeon). Integrated graphics. Even as a semiconductor foundry.

This mentions the share of desktop PC processors. Not sure what the definition is, but I'm thinking it excludes Apple and possibly Linux machines. They basically only consider AMD and Intel. Intel is still the leader by far, but AMD is gaining a lot of market share.

Intel recently sold their cable networking division that gave us the fatally flawed Puma cable modem SOCs - which were from TI. They combined an Atom CPU core, with a DOCSIS modem and WiFi.
 
I worked for a company that had several aircraft. If a full flight of people were making the same trip it was cheaper than commercial, especially if booked on short notice.

It’s certainly a different dynamic. Their large sites like Santa Clara, Folsom, and Chandler had at least 7000 employees. Hillsboro had maybe 20,000. There was a lot of travel and as you hint, no difference in cost depending on booking time.

The also tended to use airports closer to their offices, where landing fees are cheaper. Not all though. There is no secondary airport in Silicon Valley other than Moffett Field.
 
Intel Israel also gave us the Core 2 family’s architecture that lives on even today with the 13th gen or whatever Intel calls it these days. And that was closer to the Pentium Pro of the 1990s(and the Pentium M from the 2000s) than the failed Pentium 4 of the 2000s.

Now, ARM - not AMD via Apple and Qualcomm are giving Intel a headache with CPUs that use less power but more performance. Nvidia is safe for now until the GPUs used with ARM using PowerVR(Apple) or former AMD IP(Qualcomm’s Adreno - which is Radeon spelled differently) can match their edge. Apple isn’t using Nvidia’s GPUs since ditching Intel.
I think x86 is in real trouble.
 
I think x86 is in real trouble.
Yea, Intel will have to evolve. Ironically, Intel did make ARM SOCs a while ago - the StrongARM and PXA series they sold to Marvell. Countless HP, Symbol/Motorola(now Zebra), HTC, BlackBerry(except the CDMA Sprint/Verizon models that used Qualcomm SOC/baseband) and Palm Treos in the mid/late 2000s used them. Intel also made the i960 RISC CPU HP used in higher-end LaserJets and Dell/LSI used them in their PERC/DRAC cards.

Now that Windows on ARM has near parity for performance against x86 - and Microsoft can learn from Apple who flipped to and from Intel to translate code, it can only get better. Those new Qualcomm Copilot+ machines are looking mighty good.
 
It’s certainly a different dynamic. Their large sites like Santa Clara, Folsom, and Chandler had at least 7000 employees. Hillsboro had maybe 20,000. There was a lot of travel and as you hint, no difference in cost depending on booking time.

The also tended to use airports closer to their offices, where landing fees are cheaper. Not all though. There is no secondary airport in Silicon Valley other than Moffett Field.
Isn’t there a GA airport in Beaverton/Hillsboro? It’s a trek to PDX if you’re outside of Portland proper(either take the TriMet MAX Red Line or a 15 minute drive from SE/NE). TriMet just extended the Red Line from Beaverton to Hillsboro, it’s just a little over an hour to the airport on the train.
 
I worked for a company that had several aircraft. If a full flight of people were making the same trip it was cheaper than commercial, especially if booked on short notice.
Really. What type of aircraft Gulfstream G650ER or something like a Pilatus PC-12? There are certainly times when a charter or biz jet makes sense, but I can remember back in 2008 when companies were selling multiple biz jets (A few Learjets were 500k on aerotrader) excess property, and empty buildings. If Intel has alot of excess sitting around it doesn't help the balance sheet.
 
Really. What type of aircraft Gulfstream G650ER or something like a Pilatus PC-12? There are certainly times when a charter or biz jet makes sense, but I can remember back in 2008 when companies were selling multiple biz jets (A few Learjets were 500k on aerotrader) excess property, and empty buildings. If Intel has alot of excess sitting around it doesn't help the balance sheet.

I posted a link earlier. But here’s another link that mentions 4 Embrarers. Two ERJ-145 and two ERJ-170.

 
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Isn’t there a GA airport in Beaverton/Hillsboro? It’s a trek to PDX if you’re outside of Portland proper(either take the TriMet MAX Red Line or a 15 minute drive from SE/NE). TriMet just extended the Red Line from Beaverton to Hillsboro, it’s just a little over an hour to the airport on the train.

Hillsboro Airport is very close to most Intel sites. Several are just blocks away from the airport.



Folsom to SAC is a slog, but Mather is fairly close near US-50.
 
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