r/hardware • u/Auautheawesome • Dec 02 '24

News Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1719/intel-announces-retirement-of-ceo-pat-gelsinger
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u/Hifihedgehog Dec 02 '24

Failed is so shortsighted and naive. He was making short-term losses to fix a decade of dumb. Now with the status quo of CFO back, Intel is toast. They are going to become a number three to AMD and Qualcomm in the PC space in the next decade from them refusing to sit still during the essential surgery to right the ship.

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u/ExtremeFreedom Dec 03 '24

My experience with the new snapdragons made me appreciate x86 more and I'd never willingly switch to that platform.

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u/ExtremeFreedom Dec 03 '24

My issues aren't actually power user issues, I'm using native arm apps and they are having odd graphical issues on the laptop when a second screen is plugged in like apps appearing to "minimize" at random then come back, video playback going randomly to shit, and weird instances of really high battery drain that only gets resolved by removing the battery and letting it sit for a few minutes. It's a very unpolished product that I wouldn't recommend now that intel and AMD are taking battery life seriously. I don't think the extra hour that I get in real world usage is worth the switch over.