In light of Gamers Nexus video today "COLLAPSE: Intel is Falling Apart" here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXVQVbAFh6I
I wanted to remind everyone that in 2015 Intel laid off thousands of workers and then engaged in discrimination to in order to spend millions on "Diversity" goals: Intel Allocates $300 Million for Workplace Diversity https://archive.is/LvtO3 and https://archive.is/trAnL
Now that Intel wasn't making stock market gains fast enough they booted Gelsinger and now we get to watch it burn.
How much of Intel's woes was due to them thinking they can suck on Uncle Sam's tits with the CHIPS Act?
Very little. They had a ton of problems and aren't competitive with amd on price for performance.
Setting their reputation on fire with CPUs that litterally rust from the inside out due to manufacturing contamination didn't help.
Then trying to shove too much voltage to try to one-up AMD in benchmarks, resulting in CPU degradation multiplied by contamination problems.
Then weird voltage jumps they took ages to fix ( and might not have fully fixed yet ) also damaging the CPUs...
If price to performance was their only problem, Intel could ride its reputation.
But the CPUs just crashing and dying from quick degradation since 13th gen onwards rightfully devastated their reputation and sales.
We're talking high risk ( up to near-certainty depending on what BIOS version you're on ) of your CPU first underperforming, then crashing, then dying, within months for 13th and 14th gens Intel CPUs.
A computer CPU is not supposed to fail. It should become old and obsolete while still performing as intended 10+ years later. I personally never had a computer CPU die on me since I got my first computer ( thankfully didn't buy an Intel CPU after their enshittification ). Intel fucking this up is very hard to move-on from.
I just don't trusts their CPUs. Oh they say the new ones are fine. Does that mean they will die in 4 years instead of 4 months? Not interested.
I recently built a new rig and went with a 12th gen CPU thanks to my coworker tipping me off that new gens had issues but I hadn't realized it was quite that bad. Guess I'll be switching to AMD if they're still this shit a decade from now.
Your coworker spared you headaches trying to figure why your computer keeps crashing.
Spared all the time you can't use your broken computer. Possibly spared you losing important progress on your work.
And not having to waste hours with Intel costumer support and then days for them to replace the defective CPU with likely another defective CPU that will have a short life.