Intel plans thousands of job cuts in face of PC slowdown
Isn't this just a culmination of nearly a decade of unforced errors and mismanaged strategy? I'm a complete outsider but I see a couple of fundamental huge misses by Intel over the past 10 or so years:<p>1) Completely missed the boat on mobile. Their ARM-competitive chips (Atom, etc.)... weren't. Missed on every measure from power to performance. Let Qualcomm and Samsung eat their lunch.<p>2) Missed too many ticks and replaced them with tocks. Fell far behind because of ridiculous tilt-at-windmill folly around Itanium and other architectural decisions that absolutely didn't pay off. Ended up taking way too long to get further down on process size.<p>3) Lost their competitive edge so much that Apple finally realized they can do it better and suffer the transitional costs of building a middleware layer to translate off of x86. Apple's fully committed to that, so Intel doesn't just lose the "no one is using a PC anymore" market, they're also losing the "those people who DO use home computers which happen to be Apples" market.<p>It's absolutely incredible to watch these formerly phenomenally innovative companies falter at that very core competency of staying cutting edge but we see it happen over and over again.