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smaddox | 1 year ago

> if you compare Intel's headcount with comparable companies (AMD, Nvidia), you can see Intel is really wasteful

AMD and NVIDIA are fabless. They are not comparable. It takes far more people to R&D a cutting-edge process node and run a dozen fabs 24/7 365.25 than it takes to design cutting edge chips.

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BeetleB|1 year ago

> AMD and NVIDIA are fabless. They are not comparable.

Which is why I said:

> You can compare just the Intel Products head count (excluding the fabs).

Both AMD and Nvidia have under 30K folks. Intel has what - 115K employees? I can assure you that 85K of them are not working in Foundry. TSMC, BTW, has 76K employees in case you want to do a Foundry comparison. Anyway you slice it (compare products or compare fabs), Intel is wasteful.