GOODBYE " INTEL & PAT GELSINGER " Maybe 2025 We will remember Intel as the legendary like GE & GM.

[restsugavan]

According to Intel lastest announcement .

 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-ceo-news-dec-2024.html#gs.icwwc8

Count down to next big thing that will coming soon.

TSMC may buy Intel foundary business , AMD may buy Intel Haifa Israel & Oregon HQ Chip design center on 2025

[Int8bldr]

Very sad news indeed. Imho, Pat was not given enough time to turn Intel around. When Pat took over about 4 years ago, Intel was too deep in the hole that his 2 predecessors put Intel in. There was no quick fix to recover from years of low capital investments into new node processes and a scale a competitive foundry business to get economics of scale. Node process development takes R&D and lots of capital, and Intel had just cut back to much in the 10 years before Pat got back... Pat was doing the right things but were not allowed to see them through. Very sad if Intel get broken up and sold for parts.

[restsugavan]

Nice to meet you @Int8bldr  😀

On employee side , many staffs on Oregon USA , Haifa Israel sound very happy to unplug legendary Core i7 990X out of their socket.

Pat role them like threaten Core i9 13900K/14900K/KS instability issue. Everything too rush. They can't amplify each node like 14nm era any more.

Only Xeon class CPU that allow to manufacture the new node like Intel 4 ( former 7nm EUV node that failed behind TSMC 7nm that design for serve AMD Ryzen Threadripper EPYC 3000/5000 series. 😁 ). Granite Rapid Xeon 6 P and E series were only products to use this node.

On Intel 3 and Intel 20A were cancelled due poor yield. Finally they're shift Diamond Rapid and Nova Lake to 18A Node.

However the hope of 18A Node also hopeless according to Boardcom CEO saying

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/broadcom-disappointed-with-intel-18a-process-technology-s...

Look like Intel foundary to be sold to TSMC soon, Design center on Haifa Israel and Oregon maybe move to AMD next.

[Int8bldr]

yeah I've read a lot about that, but Pat's defending the progress and that yields are where they should be at stage of the process dev cycle (they will improve further by full mature production). hard to know how much is true and is the tech press spin.

and BTW, I still have one old PC with a Core i7 Extreme 990X OCed on the ASUS Rampage III Extreme (X58) MB with 24GB RAM also OCed. Extremely capable PC which is still going strong 14+ years after introduction. I have no plans of decommissioning it any time soon and use it daily for every day admin tasks. My first and longest lasting (and best?) PC build I've ever done. Once I first upgraded it with modern SSDs, like 10 years ago (and then kept refreshing with even better SSDs every 3-5 years), and new graphics cards (every 4-5 years or so) performance jumps and it has been able to keep up with all windows 7 -> windows 10 upgrades, MS office, browsing etc. Huge kudos to both intel and ASUS for this exceptional CPU and MB that has been stable (although I did mod the bios a few times). It made me a loyal fan of both ASUS and Intel. Exceptional engineering! Concern is that MS will not allow it to be upgraded to windows 11 but I’m not too concerned about that... If there is a will there is a way - hehe.... we'll see what MS does about all people who are running PCs that are not allowed to run windows 11 next fall when they stop supporting windows 10 October 2025... About 65% of all windows PCs are running windows 10 so my guess they will continue to support win 10 or relax h/w requirements so that more are allowed to run windows 11 without hacks... we'll see. I used a work are d to test win 11 and it runs just fine. But went back to win 10.  The Core i7 Extreme 990X on the ASUS Rampage III Extreme (X58) is the perfect stable platform - it never crashes. Not a blue screen for half a decade. Can’t remember last I had a problem… just works!

[restsugavan]

Hi @Int8bldr  and everyone.

There are no future of Intel after Arrow Lake failed.