What's Going On with Intel?

https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1288911541207613440

by diskmuncher • 6 years ago

81 38 6 years ago

nabla92• 6 years ago

Interesting read.

The point about Intel having many units waiting for 14nm capacity to be gradually released to them from CPU/Server business is good one. All those 14nm fabs should be used for other things already.

phire• 6 years ago

I feel really sorry for Intel hardware engineers.

A lot of them have finished designs only to have them delayed due to the process they targeted being either not ready, or having no spare capacity.

Many of the products have been delayed so much that they get cancelled. It doesn't make sense to release them anymore as newer designs are ready to take their spot on the queue waiting for capacity.

rat9988• 6 years ago

I feel more sorry toward the investors who paid for their workj to be honest.

kanox• 6 years ago

That's a tweet with an image of part 3 of an article?

I don't understand why people do this. Please just post text.

cm2187• 6 years ago

He probably typed it in Paint!

Koshkin• 6 years ago

Would not be such a bad idea. You control the presentation 100%, can use any resolution, and the result can be saved compressed as a PNG.

thaumasiotes• 6 years ago

People do that on Twitter to get around the rule that you can't post anything long enough to be worth talking about.

Isn't the limit still 280 characters?

dijit2• 6 years ago

There is twitlonger for that. But it has the unfortunate side effect of basically being a plain URL, where as images can be read on the site directly.

At some point though someone’s got to understand that the platform is not conducive to sharing longer content. Tweet chains and especially images of text are an accessibility and UX nightmare.

I’m actually getting more annoyed the more I think about it, because I understand why.. but it’s just so wasteful.

fortran77• 6 years ago

We get it! You don't use or like Twitter. Maybe this isn't the discussion thread for you, then.

jasode• 6 years ago

I don't understand why people do this. Please just post text.

I think it's easy to see why it happens in this case.

- Presumably, the Twitter user @chiakokhua came across some Chinese text and used DeepL[1] website to translate to English.

- The text is very long (more than 280-char limit of Twitter) and thus it's easier to just screenshot the entire DeepL translation webpage and upload the image. Easy way to bypass the 280-char limit

- he didn't export the DeepL translation and post a link to a HTML webpage of pure text because he probably doesn't have his own website to post it; he's already a Twitter user and has an audience there with ~4000+ followers

tldr: a bunch of little factors contribute to a seemingly insane decision to post screenshots of a translation

[1] https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#es/en/por%20quoi

the8472• 6 years ago

he didn't export the DeepL translation and post a link to a HTML webpage of pure text because he probably doesn't have his own website to post it

Pastebin is a thing.

DominikD• 6 years ago

Twitter is crap for posting text and, frankly, if someone if providing valuable insight that's a photo of a napkin - arguing about the delivery method is just rude. If you want the plain text, OCR that image and post it somewhere.

justinclift4• 6 years ago

It's a bit hard to read as is. There are several posts in .png format, each translated to English. There's a bunch of insightful info in them.

Part 1:

https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1288911541207613440/ph...

Part 2:

https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1288402697536720897/ph...

Part 2.5 (a commentary by the author):

https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1289816670626709506/ph...

Part 3:

https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1291687789260451847/ph...

Part 4:

https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1293444174851653632/ph...

This appears to be thr original (non-english) author:

https://www.facebook.com/RDinPortland

prvc• 6 years ago

How about a plaintext transcription?

justinclift4• 6 years ago

More effort than I can be bothered with personally, but you're free to do one. ;)

Symmetry• 6 years ago

The idea that Intel's process was able to stay ahead by accepting design rules that were hard to work with was something I'd always heard. That's why their foundry plays, despite the process lead back in the day, never seemed to work out.

rossdavidh• 6 years ago

It's a big ship, which is hard to turn around. However, I am reminded that General Motors was clearly a shadow of it's former self by the late 1970's, yet it took until the Fiscal Crisis in 2008 for it to actually go bust. When you're that big, you can spiral downwards for a long, long time.

Const-me• 6 years ago

Interesting.

BTW if anyone wanna watch the video linked from #4, here’s the link, took me couple of attempts due to uppercase i versus lowercase L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLpQnIJviE

greendestiny_re• 6 years ago

I usually deal with that problem by copying the link to Notepad++, where the distinction is quite clear.

post_break• 6 years ago

You can see why Apple saw the sinking ship in 2015 and started down the ARM path with all the delays and vulnerabilities.

redwood• 6 years ago

I will never understand the fascination with Twitter.

Guy2020• 6 years ago

It's the Borg hive mind.

DoofusOfDeath• 6 years ago

I'm getting an error message saying "This Tweet is unavailable." Does that mean it's been deleted? (I don't normally use Twitter.)

And if so, is there still some way I can read the content?

randomifcpfan• 6 years ago

If you have a facebook account, you could start with the link to what is supposedly the original Chinese text, and translate it yourself...

thewebcount• 6 years ago

Thread reader is able to pull it up[0].

[0] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1288402693770231809.html

skoll43• 6 years ago

its dead jim

mqus• 6 years ago

I had the image of part three still open so that might work: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfM8ic8U0AAXdwn?format=png&name=...

justinclift4• 6 years ago

Yeah, they're all in the Wayback machine already.

sxp• 6 years ago

https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1294653961211752448

Friends, at the request of the original author, I have deleted the thread entitled "What's going on with Intel?" He was not comfortable with the attention it is getting.

justinclift4• 6 years ago

The individual images are already archived in the Wayback machine.

rgrs• 6 years ago

Do you have link? I had bookmarked tweet for later reading, now lost them.

martinpw• 6 years ago

Very interesting set of posts. Part 4 on what Keller did to shake things up was particularly enlightening (and impressive).

I wish there was a part 5 discussing why he left. I've seen lots of speculation but no good inside information.

dr_zoidberg• 6 years ago

I've seen lots of speculation but no good inside information.

I've read rumors along the lines of illness, some say him, others say a close relative of his. Even so, these rumors are not really very interesting. I think "illness" crossed the mind of everyone who read the sudden and unexpected announcement of him leaving "for personal reasons".

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