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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Says the Company Will Take More Risks

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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said in a memo to Intel employees that the company would be taking more risks in the future. Further, the 2013-anointed CEO said that the company will center its growth strategy on data, not just computing "(...) memory, FPGAs, IOT, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving. Anything that produces data, anything that requires a lot of computing, the vision is, we're there."

The Intel CEO also mentioned the company's financial outlook and growth of recent times, with the increased focus on those same data-hungry fields have led to company to achieve an almost 50/50 ratio in income divided by both PC and all other Intel growth areas. Intel's recent acquisitions of Nervana, Mobileye and Altera, just to name a few, have been some of the more evident of these, but the company has also been picking up slightly smaller companies as well. These all sound well and good - and we all know the consumer PC market hardly makes up for most of Intel's revenue streams, but here's hoping this means increased risks and innovation in this space as well. Unless increasing computing cores on consumer processors by two units across the product stack is an immense show of risk-taking from the company, in which case: bravo. Read on for the Intel CEO's memo in its entirety, right after the break.





"Intel employees,

As 2017 comes to a close, I want to reflect on this year and the progress we've made on our journey to transform Intel. Day to day, it can be hard to see how radically we are changing, yet when you add it all up, clearly it's been quite a year!

I think back to the early 80s, when I was hired fresh out of college to be a process engineer in our New Mexico fab. Back then, we made memory chips called DRAMs. You probably know the famous story about how in 1985 Andy Grove and Gordon Moore, faced with a rapid decline in our core business, made a bet-the-company decision to get out of memory and switch to manufacturing microprocessors.

I was about three months into the job when my boss walked in and said, "We're not in the DRAM business anymore. We'll shut the factory down." I remember calling up my father and telling him, "Well, I'll be coming home."

Instead, I watched as Intel made a massive shift. It required downsizing, new investments, and a lot of change. Yet in December 1997-20 years ago this month-Time magazine named then-Intel CEO Andy Grove its Man of the Year. Under his leadership, Intel had transformed from embattled memory maker to the world's leading microprocessor company and a leader of the digital revolution.

Two decades later, Intel is again reinventing itself and I'm inspired by the accomplishments of this past year.

First I want to call out the phenomenal innovation this year from our client business. They showed the market what's possible, and CCG's success quarter after quarter is fueling the big bets we're making in our future.

It's almost impossible to perfectly predict the future, but if there's one thing about the future I am 100% sure of, it is the role of data. Data is becoming the most valuable asset for any company. That's why our growth strategy is centered on data: memory, FPGAs, IOT, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving. Anything that produces data, anything that requires a lot of computing, the vision is, we're there.

I believe almost everything that impacts our lives-whether it's healthcare or driving, retail or government-it will all be touched by our technology over the next 5 to 10 years. The world will run on Intel silicon.

We're just inches away from being a 50/50 company, meaning that half our revenue comes from the PC and half from new growth markets. In many of these new markets we are definitely the underdog. That's an exciting challenge - it requires that we develop and use new, different muscles.

The new normal for Intel is that we are going to take more risks. The new normal is that we will continue to make bold moves and try new things. We'll make mistakes. Bold doesn't always mean right or perfect. The new normal is that we'll get good at trying new things, determining what works and moving forward.

The new normal is that as we go after new business, people will come after us. The new normal is that we embrace change and act as One Intel-a hungry, aggressive company not content to play defense but instead fired up to go after a $260 billion TAM.

As we look ahead to Intel's 50th anniversary next July, I think about Bob Noyce's inspiring challenge to all of us: "Don't be encumbered by history, go off and do something wonderful."

We have the opportunity to look to the future and embrace a new Intel, a different, fast-paced, global enterprise that's adapting and growing.

As we prepare to celebrate the holidays with families and friends, I want to thank each of you for your tireless contributions to our many achievements this year-from ingenious new products and futuristic technologies to exciting acquisitions such as Mobileye to our leadership in social responsibility.

As we end what our forecast predicts is a record year and look ahead to celebrating a half-century of innovation that has profoundly changed the world, I could not be more proud to lead this company. Thank you for joining me and your Intel colleagues around the world on this remarkable journey.

Happy holidays!

BK"

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Yep, follow the trend and copy the perceived competition with blinders on. That's what they do in silicon valley.

Though the idea of intel and AMD CPU/GPU SOC is somewhat appealing, but moreso for a laptop.
 
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Is this meaning they will "risk" increasing the new CPUs performance from more than 5% to, let's say 7% over the previous gen??
 
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Can they risk entering discrete GPU market? Because that would be interesting :rolleyes:
 
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Oh yes Intel... bring me that sweet sweet 14nm++++++
 
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Raja Koduri better make a good GPU this time, or his ass will be fired for sure

Vega was once again overhyped, thats all (personally I think its a new technique of fanboys of the other side to overhype something so it can be nothing but disappointing)
Its a fine gpu, so much so that the competition felt the need to release a new card just to compete.
 
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Vega was once again overhyped, thats all (personally I think its a new technique of fanboys of the other side to overhype something so it can be nothing but disappointing)
Its a fine gpu, so much so that the competition felt the need to release a new card just to compete.

Yeah it's fine. For mining. For gaming anyone buying it over a gtx10 has serious mental problems. One of the worst amd gpu launches ever, since I can remember. If you think gtx1070ti had anything to do with vega then you're wrong.
 

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Can they risk entering discrete GPU market? Because that would be interesting :rolleyes:

jmo but I suspect with a company like Intel and their love for huge profit margins that if they did enter the discrete GPU market they would just focus on expensive professional cards. That's where the big profits are made. But what would they do with their salvage chips that were partly defective? Possibly these would trickle down for gaming cards.
 

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Yeah it's fine. For mining. For gaming anyone buying it over a gtx10 has serious mental problems. One of the worst amd gpu launches ever, since I can remember. If you think gtx1070ti had anything to do with vega then you're wrong.

It's too expensive, otherwise at least the Vega 56 is decent.
 
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But what would they do with their salvage chips that were partly defective? Possibly these would trickle down for gaming cards.

I hope so, because a three way discrete GPU battle would definitely be an interesting thing, and also means moar option to choose from
 
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