Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

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<ul>
<li>Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel in 1968, has died at the age of 94</li>
<li>Arthur Rock raised $2.5 million to kick-start Intel in a single day. He did so without any formal business plan from the founding duo. He's still alive to this day. </li>
<li>While Noyce was charismatic and loved the limelight, Moore was the quiet revolutionary in the background who nurtured Intel to become the most important semiconductor company on the planet</li>
</ul>


Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel in 1968, has died at the age of 94
Arthur Rock raised $2.5 million to kick-start Intel in a single day. He did so without any formal business plan from the founding duo. He's still alive to this day. 
While Noyce was charismatic and loved the limelight, Moore was the quiet revolutionary in the background who nurtured Intel to become the most important semiconductor company on the planet


<ul>
<li>Intel recently hosted a webinar on the company’s Data Center &amp; AI group strategy</li>
<li>Intel has the broadest range of compute processor types on the market including CPU, GPU, FPGA, ASIC etc, but has lost its competitive edge to AMD on the server side</li>
<li>Regaining server leadership will require home runs on both Granite Rapids and Intel 3 in 2025</li>
</ul>


Intel recently hosted a webinar on the company’s Data Center &amp; AI group strategy
Intel has the broadest range of compute processor types on the market including CPU, GPU, FPGA, ASIC etc, but has lost its competitive edge to AMD on the server side
Regaining server leadership will require home runs on both Granite Rapids and Intel 3 in 2025


Intel's Data Center & AI Investor Webinar Key Takeaways

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<li>The current semiconductor downturn is largely attributable to the reversion of PC and Smartphone unit shipments to their pre-pandemic norms</li>
<li>There are good reasons to believe that the trough for PC unit shipments will be Q1 2023. </li>
<li>Server shipments will decline sequentially in H1 and this may further prolong the impact on memory players, Intel and to a lesser extent, AMD &amp; NVIDIA</li>
</ul>


The current semiconductor downturn is largely attributable to the reversion of PC and Smartphone unit shipments to their pre-pandemic norms
There are good reasons to believe that the trough for PC unit shipments will be Q1 2023. 
Server shipments will decline sequentially in H1 and this may further prolong the impact on memory players, Intel and to a lesser extent, AMD &amp; NVIDIA


<ul>
<li>While his hiring back in 2017 was heralded with a corporate press release, his abrupt departure yesterday was communicated via a rather succinct tweet from the CEO. </li>
<li>Intel's GPU/DPU data center roadmap was already "simplified" in back in January. Will what remains survive the ongoing cuts across the company?</li>
<li>Should Intel still really be trying to break into the gaming PC market? How is that strategically important? </li>
</ul>


While his hiring back in 2017 was heralded with a corporate press release, his abrupt departure yesterday was communicated via a rather succinct tweet from the CEO. 
Intel's GPU/DPU data center roadmap was already "simplified" in back in January. Will what remains survive the ongoing cuts across the company?
Should Intel still really be trying to break into the gaming PC market? How is that strategically important? 


<ul>
<li>The role has been vacant for &gt; 3 months. Why wait till now to chose an obvious in-situ candidate?</li>
<li>Closure date for the Tower acquisition has been pushed out to H1 2023 from Q1 2023 according to an Intel filing on January 27 last</li>
<li>Intel's fortunes have changed dramatically for the worse over the past year. It's debatable whether the Tower acquisition makes sense any more. </li>
</ul>


The role has been vacant for &gt; 3 months. Why wait till now to chose an obvious in-situ candidate?
Closure date for the Tower acquisition has been pushed out to H1 2023 from Q1 2023 according to an Intel filing on January 27 last
Intel's fortunes have changed dramatically for the worse over the past year. It's debatable whether the Tower acquisition makes sense any more. 


Intel Foundry Chief Announcement Spells Trouble For The Tower Semi Acquisition

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