Intel guardando i modi per “monetizzare” l’operazione irlandese
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/05/02/intel-looking-at-ways-to-monetise-irish-operation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=HP-SubDesc
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Intel guardando i modi per “monetizzare” l’operazione irlandese
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/05/02/intel-looking-at-ways-to-monetise-irish-operation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=HP-SubDesc
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they’re cooked
They could cover the new factory facade with advertising.
Has it been run as a not for profit up to this point?
Have they tried making chips that actually compete with AMD?
Our place took on a few intels lads.recently all reackon its done.
Because it was a “charity” up until now. You see they need to make more money.
A bunch of sleezy execs trying to find ways to boost their bonuses “a little bit more”.
I hate giant multinational corporate culture with every fiber of my body and soul! I fcuking hate it!
The downfall of Intel needs to be studied.
Their products have fallen short as AMD recovered from their FX series with Ryzen and have now pushed beyond Intels best offerings at reasonable prices.
Intel have gone on to lose a lot of the server grade products as upgraded racks move to AMD product line.
They have also lost the entire Apple ecosystem as Apple moved to their own ARM based processors and have taken in house, which has seen huge success in terms of battery life, heat generation and performance gains.
I’m not in Intel but I know a number of people in Ireland and the US who do and previously worked at Intel and the story is the same.
They got compliance, cocky and when it came to trying to build better products, they have been unable to release a stand out product that beats the competition in a number of years now.
Their pivot into GPU has been a solid experiment but they will not be turning heads to get their GPUs into platforms like PS/Xbox (AMD) or Switch (Nvidia) but they could be in a solid position to offer a low-mid tier GPU for the 1080p market. But going up market would be incredibly difficult to win.
They need to turn this around or they will fail, it will be a long slow death ending in acquisition.
Pardon me ignorance but is this the same plant in Limerick thats massively expanding/ under construciton?
Would like to see the EU get involved. Nice to have some homegrown EU chip manufacturing in the current climate.
IntelFans
It’s a winning formula
The fab in Ireland serves EMEA.
Trump’s tariffs basically don’t affect it’s bottom line.
The fact Intel lost its process node lead is the main challenge to Intel as a company, let alone Ireland specifically.
The Irish operation is as safe as the company outside the US can be.
Intel is basically now years behind competition. They could well end up contract manufacturing other people’s chips at this rate.
They never managed to get on the mobile bandwagon at all — whole sector is dominated by ARM based chips. Seems like they never really took that sector seriously, but then the mobile chip tech became so competent it left them in the dust — fast, highly efficient, highly customisable chip architecture.
Apple dumped them entirely in favour of their own ARM based solutions for laptop / desktop that are entirely custom and their own design, but based a developed on the same tech as their iPhones and iPads were running on for years.
Meanwhile NVIDEA is wiping the floor with them at the moment and AMD is ahead of them too at the moment in many areas of generic desktop processing.
Intel just seems to have hit a brick wall in terms of R&D leading to products.
If they want to make their chips more attractive to the market then I suggest that they cover them in cheese and taco sauce
Intel is dead. It has been for years now.
Saying you want to “Monetize” a facility is often the coded first step to saying it is loss making or at least not generating enough revenue. And often when a company like Intel is looking to “Monetize” an asset they usually mean sell it. What he has basically done is slap a huge “For Sale” sign on the Leixlip facility and if that doesn’t work he has laid the first stone in building the argument to “restructure” it (i.e. close parts of all of it).
I’m surprised that nobody has tried to get TSMC to set up a fab in Ireland (or anywhere else in the EU for that matter).
Aside from ensuring we would still have a semiconductor industry *(probably a healthier one too being less reliant on a single client)* even if Intel completely shits the bed & closes up shop, it would give TSMC some added stability if anything happens in Taiwan, without the volatility that their US fabs are at risk at thanks to the trade war/tariff nonsense.
Why would I ever buy from Intel knowing what I know now?
Their biggest semiconductor fab is in Israel of all places.
Not to mention their stuff is horrible value for money.