The genesis of this is when Apple moved from Intel to their own chips.

zamadatix 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's just one small event along the way, one that occurred many years after Intel started slipping enough for long enough that an iPhone was more powerful than an Intel laptop and after Intel's fabs failed to produce a useful new generation many generations in a row and after Intel acquired many companies just to spin down their products and after...

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wpm 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This started at Skylake.

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dofm 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Intel’s problems started with Itanium.

Sure, the Core 2 series ultimately, after a long gap, put them back on the rails at least, but Intel missed big iron and panicked.

Everything else since has been about desperately squeezing x86 into every niche, even when it probably shouldn’t be. That the Core 2 series gained an Apple-shaped halo is lucky for them, but the reality is that they have been on the back foot at some level since the failure of IA-64.

They needed to get themselves out of the hole by using AMD’s architecture, and they have been a polar bear on a large but shrinking iceberg ever since.

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anon-3988 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The problem is doubling down on a single technology. They dropped the ball on GPU and storage, imagine that. It probably makes sense from the bean counter but they are not exploring new areas and diversifying. Now that people dont particularly care for x86, they are screwed. Good riddance.

	▲	hypercube33 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The weird bit is they picked up the ball for graphics again and ran with it for a while, but fell down and broke their leg and sold the team to nvidia now. Right when their product line is probably placed the best - medium end good, priced GPUs for gaming, they are done with that segment.

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cowlevel 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I notice modern intel chips are still named after Skylake. It's as if that's when they decided to stop innovating.

They used to use completely new names for new designs and then variants of that name for variants of that design. As in Sandy Bridge and then Ivy Bridge. Haswell, then Broadwell. Skylake, then Kaby Lake. Then Coffee Lake. Then Cannon Lake. 10 years later now they're still doing Lakes. It might not have much relation to the technical design but it gives the impression they gave up on new things.

	▲	SecretDreams 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AMD names their server CPUs after Italian cities. Sometimes naming is just naming. No further depth or symbolism. Skylake is when things started to go south, outwardly facing. But it was even long before that. The rot happened in the foundry side and it grew for a very long time, silently, because of how little competition existed. Everything thereafter was pain.