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Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’
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For anyone who isn't aware, Intel is on the BDS list. Overall them losing money is a good thing. Let's hope they lose all of it.
What is an alternative to Intel? Afaik most computers are sold with their products
They've been losing marketshare to ARM for years. For cloud infrastructure servers (where the big bucks are) I know Amazon has been making a huge push towards ARM-based processors since the late 2010s — they offer them cheaper than servers with equivalent Intel chips, and in some cases they have better performance too, which is a major incentive for companies to switch. (Every company I've worked at has had a project to switch to the ARM-based servers.) Google just announced their own ARM-based processors for their cloud platform this year, and Microsoft has been offering them for a couple years too.
Part of it is that it's easier for these companies to customize (and manufacture?) their own ARM-based chipsets, which means they can offer them for a lower price vs Intel