THIS video starts with a few notes or mental notes (memories) regarding the demise of Intel, based on this week's news (so far we know about a new CEO, as noted in our latest batch of Daily Links and more upcoming news picks). Intel has a job and talent retention crisis. It's very well aware that in some circles/areas of operation it has grown increasingly irrelevant and fell way behind. That's why they're putting a new CEO in place (he comes from the most notorious GPL violator) and there are some big layoffs in a company half owned by Intel. We'll link to reports about it in the next batch of Daily Links and this morning I heard about this from people with contacts inside the company (so it's personally corroborated). It's pretty serious, no matter what Intel tries to tell the public (or shareholders), and there's more to come. I spent 20 minutes on the phone.

"Intel has a job and talent retention crisis."This video deals with lack of understanding of GNU/Linux inside Intel. It also shows poor documentation efforts, which alienate and upset whatever geeks still work at Intel (there seems to be 'brain drain'; see this series' index in the relevant wiki page). Later in this series we'll show some of the things that cause Intel engineers to hand in their notice; One of them wrote: "dropbox?! github?! slack?! We're going to lose devs... I just use a shell, irc and gitlab but for change... why not an internal git of our own..."

"It's inadvertently also a cautionary tale for other companies."Intel will pay a very high price for trying to impose Microsoft on people who focus on GNU/Linux in order to get away from Microsoft. Of course Microsoft isn't going to save Intel, nor will the new/incoming CEO (term starts or becomes effective very soon). Maybe nothing can save Intel anymore. It has long been committing felonies and nowadays it persistently makes a bunch of suicidal decisions/moves. The public needs to see it and insiders ought to know who's responsible. It's inadvertently also a cautionary tale for other companies. ⬆