News Intel Bulks Up Engineering Roster With Returning Technologist Sunil Shenoy

[Admin]

Intel announced that Sunil Shenoy, a 33-year Intel veteran, is returning to the company to head up the Design Engineering Group.

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[digitalgriffin]

This is a good sign. I wish Intel luck.

I've personally seen a couple companies I worked for go down in flames because bean counting managers don't know how to inspire, or the effect of "Thrash" (Thrash: Swapping in and out of technical positions causing a loss of any progress as gears are switched). They just cut cost at the expense of moral. This, in the long term, is more damaging as skilled talent leaves. I would still love to know what drove Jim Keller out.

 

[kiniku]

I can remember in around 2003, AMD's Athlon desktop processors were superior to Intel's Pentium 4 "Netburst" processors. Then Intel, under Sunil Shenoy's team designed the "Core" processors and Intel took a substantial lead that lasted for decades until Zen. Intel will do it again, for sure. It will be interesting what Intel comes up with and if it's powerful like Core was the consumer will win.

 

[User2077]

This is a good sign. I wish Intel luck.

I've personally seen a couple companies I worked for go down in flames because bean counting managers don't know how to inspire, or the effect of "Thrash" (Thrash: Swapping in and out of technical positions causing a loss of any progress as gears are switched). They just cut cost at the expense of moral. This, in the long term, is more damaging as skilled talent leaves. I would still love to know what drove Jim Keller out.

I totally agree about bean-counters are usually short-sighted jerks. Linus recently said on a podcast Keller left because of all the talk within Intel about out-sourcing more production.

View: https://youtu.be/-_YBydPNp70?t=1052

 

[digitalgriffin]

I can remember in around 2003, AMD's Athlon desktop processors were superior to Intel's Pentium 4 "Netburst" processors. Then Intel, under Sunil Shenoy's team designed the "Core" processors and Intel took a substantial lead that lasted for decades until Zen. Intel will do it again, for sure. It will be interesting what Intel comes up with and if it's powerful like Core was the consumer will win.

I agree with you there. But one of the things that gave Intel such a key advantage was it's advanced process nodes. AMD was stuck with GloFo for such a long time and they couldn't get the raw speeds with GloFo's technology. . If they could have improving Phenom, they with a better node, they might have been in a better place. But once again the bean counters took over and aimed for raw speed with deep pipelines, and cheap R&D with circuits being automated designed instead of hand optimizing sections as they should have.

It was the same with RTG. Todays landscape is a lot more competitive on the node size front. It will be difficult for Intel to truly establish the lead and maintain core count total performance. Rocket Lake demonstrates this. Alder lake could be a misfire as well unless it's mobile power consumption intel is worried about. And even that may be a bad bet. The #1 consumer of energy is GPU and Displays now. And whenever power savings advancements were made in the past, Laptop Mfg's made the battery Wh rating smaller. (cuts down on size and cost) And that battery loss negates any power saving benefit.

Low powered cores are good for smart phones and tablets where you are constantly unplugged. My laptop is plugged in 99% of the time. I don't care about power efficiency when I'm waiting on compiles.

I think this process node parity however is a good thing. Monopolies are never good for consumers.

 

[oceanwaves]

Excellent news ! Pat Gelsinger and his team should consider #holograms, #neuron, #augmentedreality dedicated chips , as well as everything ARM & RiSC-V that paying Customers want or need. Also #drones dedicated SoC are going to be huge since China is just building Core Industry of #FlyingCars #FlyingTaxis #FlyingHomeDeliveries , not to mention Military ultra/micro-drones in attack/jamming formation. Potential is huge. My question is how USA Federal Reserve & USTreasury will tackle #DigitalDollar custom secure apps & devices ?

 

[jkflipflop98]

I would still love to know what drove Jim Keller out.

That's just what Jim does. He's never held a job for more than four years. Most of the time it's only two and he's off to the next company.

 

[digitalgriffin]

That's just what Jim does. He's never held a job for more than four years. Most of the time it's only two and he's off to the next company.

He was ready to leave at 1 year. That's a highly short time, even for him. And there were rumblings about disagreements with management. Over what I have no idea. I'm not sure how out sourcing would affect Jim's decision as User2077/Linus says. But Linus is mostly reliable. So if Linus says so, I believe him.

 

[FunSurfer]

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them...
maybe you can hire The i-Team.

 

[jkflipflop98]

He was ready to leave at 1 year. That's a highly short time, even for him. And there were rumblings about disagreements with management. Over what I have no idea. I'm not sure how out sourcing would affect Jim's decision as User2077/Linus says. But Linus is mostly reliable. So if Linus says so, I believe him.

Well that's not really true. Management bent over backwards to do whatever Jim wanted. He was given total control over a lot of the company.