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So they got all that money from Uncle Sam's CHIPS Act only to lay off 10,000 employees and make themselves "lean". Govt funded unemployment.

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[–] hardcoreufo 27 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I work in the industry and my understanding of the chips act is certain goals must be met in order to receive money. Something like in order to get this 50 million, you must buy 100 million of new equipment and facilities improvement. In order to get this 25 million you must have 50 million worth of new jobs. These requirements were also spread out over years so you couldn't artificially inflate your work force or sell off equipment.

Not saying Intel doesn't suck, but I doubt they are getting chips act money now. Or they will have to have a big turn around in the next few years to do so. They certainly aren't getting a free 8 billion.

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[–] Allonzee 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is an admisson of no future.

They're throwing crew out of their boat full of holes to assure investors they're ship shape... for the next quarterly profit report.

Their corpse will be long since picked clean of their patents, assets, and trademarks by 2030.

[–] TropicalDingdong 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems like a great time to buy AMD, ARM and QUAL

[–] _bcron 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only if you have conviction. Buying tech in the face of recession fears is one thing, but buying tech that supplies hardware to tech is another. It'll probably sound like a whip cracking if the AI frenzy ever collapses hard

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

ARM and Qualcomm aren't really involved with AI, and AI only makes up 15-20% of AMD's revenue. Nvidia the one to watch out for, an entire 85% of their revenue is just AI and Mellanox. The Nvidia pump has been insane.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Somebody should make a Borat Meme with AMD and Intel "Big Success!"

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[–] Cossty 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While i dont like intel, I hope they wont sack GPU division.

[–] bitwaba 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They won't. That's their springboard into that multi trillion dollar AI market everyone keeps talking about

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

So the semiconductor jobs and manufacturing aren't coming back to the US?

Who else saw this coming? Because I did.

I remember telling people that and they wouldn’t believe it. Time has a way of making the unknown known.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

This sort of thing is increasingly making TSMC a monopoly as a fab. Due to the extreme economies of scale, fabbing looks like something that is hard to do well under the capitalist model. Perhaps a good time for some of the larger nations of the world to start publicly owned fabs (that publish their research instead of hoarding it) instead of ending up with the whole world reliant on one company that will eventually be able to name its price.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

After all this time, AMD finally won. They made a hell of a comeback too. GG guys.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Anyone else still beliving capitalism will do R&D willingly? Even most recent and hyped(not without reason) development - powervia - came from institute from former soviet bloc.

[–] brucethemoose 15 points 1 month ago

I feel like they have the farm bet on Falcon Shores and (to a lesser extend) the Xe line now, and of course the foundry.

It'd be great if the bad rumors and delays would stop... yeah...

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