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roofuskit ,

A lack of competition.

Magister ,
@Magister@lemmy.world avatar

Greed?

TheFeatureCreature ,
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world avatar

Large amounts of greed, corruption, and complacency.

Armok_the_bunny ,

The marketing and advertising and sales teams took over management from the engineering team, and decided to cut all the corners. It’s a classic tale at this point, same thing happened to Boeing and Apple and Google and etc. It’s why everything sucks nowadays.

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

There might be things that Apple is stagnating on, but silicon and ARM CPU transitions definitely ain’t one of those things. The rest of the industry is scrambling to catch up with them asap.

db2 ,

Just ask Apple, they’ll tell you so.

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t trust any silicon manufacturer’s marketing department. Let the processing and battery life benchmarks and real world tests do the talking.

saltesc ,

But then Apple would have to drop it’s prices by 40% so people would keep buying.

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

But that would make it accessible to commoners! gasp

uis ,

And? Linux was on ARM since about beginning.

JGrffn ,

What relevance does Linux have in this specific context? Does Linux have a marketing team? Does Linux compete on a hardware level with Apple? Is there a Linux corp we haven’t heard about that’s working with some chip manufacturer we also haven’t heard about in order to create ARM processors that can compete with Apple silicon? No? Maybe don’t shoehorn Linux into everything regardless of relevance, especially not in such a lane way.

uis ,

Because compared to other OSes Apple just catches up.

Does Linux have a marketing team?

No marketing team = no enshittification by marketing

Is there a Linux corp we haven’t heard about that’s working with some chip manufacturer we also haven’t heard about in order to create ARM processors that can compete with Apple silicon?

So you agree that transitioning to ARM isn’t impressive. Now it’s time to show you that making processors isn’t something only oh-so-great Yoppl can do. Linux Foundation has its own chip designing subsidiary - CHIPS Alliance. They designed stuff like vector coprocessor, RISC-V core(and older VeeR cores), maintains Chisel HDL and many smaller projects. And I only named what only Linux Foundation does, community and other organizations(including chinese T-head) do even more.

JGrffn ,

Great, now show me the Linux ARM laptop that’s competing with MacBooks at the consumer level. You do have something that’s actively turning people away from Apple Silicon, yes?

uis ,

How is competeing with macbooks at the consumer level is related to enshittification by marketing team becoming managment?

Now me Apple ARM laptop that’s competeing with chromebooks.

mephiska ,

These new snapdragon based windows laptops have to be a serious wake up call for intel. General personal computing is quickly moving away from x86 and the latest “efficiency” core processors from intel can’t compete.

Corkyskog ,

For those that don’t follow the industry at all, is there somewhere that has a good write up on what’s been going on?

brucethemoose ,

If you’re talking about the lastest gen desktop CPUs, they just clocked them too high.

This has been an ongoing problem ever since, like, Ivy Bridge/the 3000 series… and yes, probably has to do with management and marketing decisions tbh, so they can be 2% ahead of AMD in some stupid benchmark. AMD is guilty of this too, and you can see what “sanely” clocked chips look like with their X3D series.

gravitas_deficiency ,

That is absolutely not the only issue. They had oxidation issues in two successive generations of consumer CPUs, likely knew about it, and sold them anyways. They’re trying to get out of reimbursing, replacing, or compensating anyone for the fucked cores, and as a direct result, a massive class-action suit is starting to roll.

rottingleaf ,

They’re trying to get out of reimbursing, replacing, or compensating anyone for the fucked cores, and as a direct result, a massive class-action suit is starting to roll.

Well, the big boys have gotten out of their responsibility for all such things in many-many seemingly unconnected areas in the last ~15 years. What do you want, it had to reach Intel.

Still the fact that this enshittification has accelerated to the extent that people notice it is just amazing. Civilization cracking all over on our eyes.

Armok_the_bunny ,

My point was that had proper engineers been in charge instead, they would have noticed and listened to the people on the ground that I am certain knew about the problem, and it would have been fixed before any consumers got their hands on the product.

Willy ,

Better them than accountants and lawyers.

Armok_the_bunny ,

I was including the accountants and lawyers in that list, just to be clear. They’re all bad if they don’t have any idea how the technical side of their business functions.

Willy ,

I think they are different levels of bad. To paraphrase the old adage, If sales takes over your company, be wary. If accountants take over, start looking for a new job. If lawyers take over quit.

Armok_the_bunny ,

I mean, and I’m thinking more in the context of retirement investments here, the moment any of those things happen I’m inclined to jump ship. I am thoroughly unaware of any time such a move has turned out well in the long run. Same sentiment for stock buybacks, though that one because if that’s the best thing the company can think of to spend money on they are completely out of good ideas.

PlexSheep ,

I can see how accountants and sales can be bad, but how exactly do lawyers fuck up? Not saying they don’t, just asking how it plays out.

sailingbythelee ,

They only bring in the lawyers when something is truly fucked, like the Board taking control from administration. They usually take over when the time has come to investigate fraud, dismantle or otherwise heavily restructure the company.

PlexSheep ,

Oh but then the lawyers are like white blood cells? They are good? Lawyers are friends? (Unless you’re a black hat/criminal I guess)

Armok_the_bunny ,

The lawyers are there to safely burn everything to the ground, because if they have been brought in everything is already fucked beyond any hope of repair.

nifty ,
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not just the big tech, some startups are the same because they’re vying for VC cash and that’s the best way to do it

AngryCommieKender ,

Vulture Capital will collapse capitalism.

phoenixz ,

Microsoft is on the same path, yay!

chemicalwonka ,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Comfort zone and believed in Microsoft’s talk that the market of the future would be desktops, but Apple came and said: Not today

Apple killed Blackberry and Intel

Beaver ,
@Beaver@lemmy.ca avatar

You’re next republican-lead Qualcommhttps://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/88362f08-1ade-483f-8a02-18255ea3b92f.jpeg

podperson ,

Nice typo in their propaganda. Couldn’t quite figure out contractions versus ownership.

smb ,

apple also killed productivity *lol but that has nothing to do with blackburied or … *who the f is intel?

server: arm handy: arm desktop: amd laptop: amd

and happy with it, left intel 20years ago for at that time already obvious reasons why other companies products are better.

work notebook: impediment with a bitten fruit logo on it. i am very unhappy with its lack of stability/deterministic behaviour on even veery low basic things, and guess what, it also has an intel cpu… yeah (f**k), i unwillingly try to use that intel crap for work.

apple might have killed intel, but got infested with releasing crappy products on that path. what a gain!!! 🤦‍♀️

i’ld rather let a zombie go on walking than getting zombiefied while trying to stop it… but tbh its “only work” that is slowed down by the fruitlogozombie (well, am i zombiefied already?) at least that “bitten” part of its logo from now on makes fully sense to me 😁 😂

cornshark ,

Sir this is a Wendy’s

Beaver ,
@Beaver@lemmy.ca avatar

Capitalism

sundray ,

Mobile strategy, I.E. lack thereof.

Fixbeat ,

This is the handiwork of highly paid executives.

doodledup ,

It’s always the executives. But how exactly? Have they ordered their employees to develop sub-par and crashing CPUs?

dwalin ,

The same way boeing executives are to blame. They did not order employees to do sub-par cpus, but they did not care about the quality of what was produced either. Good hardware (and software) its always the product of a process that involves QA, HR, Operations, R&D and many other departments. These departments fall under the supervision/control of the executive suite.

veni_vedi_veni ,

Well run cost center departments don’t boost quarterly results, ergo they are deprioritized.

They are looking out for themselves rather then the company, because of the incentives in place.

We are living in weird times where stock price doesn’t really correspond with company health, so their actions reflect against that metric against all others.

dwalin ,

I think it was a mindset shift. Right now short term stock value is more important because the shareholder profile also shifted from someone that holded the stock to someone who wants just to turn a quick profit.

Fixbeat ,

I am sure it falls under the category of cost cutting. Death by a thousand self inflicted cuts.

EnderMB ,

I can answer this!

There’s a term in tech called “empire building” where middle management looks for promotion up the chain towards directorships or VP roles. If, for example, you have a CEO that’s nuts for AI all you’ll want to do to get on their good side is to build a team around AI for some random service you already have (e.g. AI in Google Search) and you’ll get a ton of funding and HC. Suddenly you run a huge division and get a fancy important title because you can shit some metrics about how well you’re performing while customers say “wait, search is shit now”. That’s the search team’s problem, your AI stuff performs great!

It’s everywhere in big tech, and it’s why so many big tech companies seemingly work extremely hard and have nothing to show for it.

The IC’s at the bottom of the ladder are just minding their own business, trying to do the best work that they can, while the leader of the empire sets ridiculous timelines and goals because they’re trying to cement a legacy, rather than build the right thing. Naturally, the product flops, the director gets moved to a new division to protect them, and the IC’s are laid off - with the CEO saying that they didn’t meet expectations or cost too much.

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Going through a period of little competition in a space seems to do that to just about every company in that position.

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Intel was once a Silicon Valley leader.

Well, any specific stuff that Intel has done recently aside, Silicon Valley has been more about software, not hardware, for quite some years.

Intel is a hardware company.

Num10ck ,

hardware and software have taken turns in long waves for 50 years. like for self driving cars right now, the hardware is ready but tue software is catching up. intel hasn’t led the bitcoin/ai waves, and microsoft is no longer married to intel, and gaming and mobile phones aren’t intel either. they are late to RISC/ARM, etc. they are too big to survive on niche and they are missing lots of major waves.

ohlaph ,

Poor practices. They focused on shorr term gains over quality.

essteeyou ,

Their solution? Lay off a bunch of people to reduce costs and increase profitability immediately.

ArbitraryValue ,

I think they’ll recover. Letting them fail would be a national security problem.

TheGrandNagus ,

Oh they won’t die. The question is will they recover to their old market position, will they downsize and be second fiddle to AMD but remain generally profitable, or will they have a slow managed decline like IBM?

ArbitraryValue ,

I think IBM was different because its lunch was eaten almost entirely by other American companies (chiefly Microsoft). That probably wouldn’t be the case if Intel were allowed to declined in a similar manner.

fubarx ,

Anything they go after today is 18-24 months out. Chasing after AI would be pretty risky. Desktops and laptops are moving to ARM and RISC-V. Their best bet is to go after whatever enterprise data centers will need a couple of years from now.

If I were laying bets, it would be to go after power and heat efficiency. Like, hard. Take their time out in the wilderness, then come back with chips that save the planet from climate collapse.

rottingleaf ,

Their ISA is not their only strong side, so they can reuse a lot of designs and expertise for making ARM and\or RISC-V ISA CPUs.

But they will have to do catching up in, ahem, making things that last more than 2 months again.

csm10495 ,
@csm10495@sh.itjust.works avatar

Probably bureaucracy. Also an inability to pivot even when things make no sense. Everything is a giant freight train that has very little ability to change direction or stop.

Oh and of course a healthy taste of not being transparent or honest.

Source: I used to work there years ago.

JohnSmith ,

This happens easily for big successful organisations. Over decades a strong culture aligned with how they succeed forms. Once the market changes requiring a culture change, a seemingly invincible company suddenly stumbles. They simply can’t respond even if they what they should change.

Ex. Rolls Royce CEO stated this phenomenon well: culture eats strategy for breakfast.

cestvrai ,

Bean counting?

TexMexBazooka ,

Yeah they had an accountant for a CEO that didn’t understand R&D, so they fell behind.

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