Übrigens leider hier auf Computerbase kein Thema, weil es vermutlich nicht zum Narrativ passt, dass Intel prinzipiell kurzsichtig, planlos und "panisch" agieren und dass Gelsinger ein rüpelhafter Trottel ist, der nichts im Griff hat, aber für Leute, die es interessiert, dürfte
dieses Transkript hier höchst lesenswert sein.
Wann erlebt man schon mal einen Intel CEO, der so frei von der Leber weg eine völlig nüchterne und realistische Einschätzung zur Lage seines Unternehmens von sich gibt?
Das war eine höchst interessante Lektüre und beantwortet viele Fragen. Es wird sogar TSMC/AMD lobend ("
good job") erwähnt und selbstkritisch gesagt, dass man selbst keinen guten Job gemacht hat in den letzten Jahren.
Gelsinger erwartet weitere Verluste bei den Marktanteilen und sieht Intel frühestens 2024 wieder "
competitive" (ich vermute mal, dass damit primär TSMC und sekundär AMD gemeint ist) und hofft, dass man ab 2025/2026 wieder in Führung gehen wird. Was soll er auch sonst sagen? Er kann ja schlecht äußern, dass man jetzt erst mal ein bis zwei Jahrzehnte im Mittelmaß rumgurken will.
Dennoch beachtenswert diese Offenheit und auch interessante Ausführungen zum Palladius-Ansatz und wie dieser erst ab 2024/2025 wirklich Früchte tragen wird, weil Projekte der prä-Palladius Ära wie Sapphire Rapids (vor 5 Jahren begonnen) nur bedingt "on the fly" von den neuen Techniken profitieren können.
Produkte, die vollständig unter Einsatz der Palladius-Methodologie entwickelt wurden, werden erst ab 2025 erwartet. Bis dahin wird es nur iterative Verbesserungen geben.
Last but not least hat er die Rückkehr von Tick-Tock (lustigerweise im schlecht redigierten Transkript auf "TikTok" autokorrigiert
) nochmals bestätigt und warum das seiner Ansicht nach der richtige Weg zurück zum Erfolg ist.
Prädikat äußerst lesenswert!
Hier mal ein paar Auszüge:
1) Zu den Geschäftsjahrprognosen...
Since then, I think things have materialized pretty much as we expected, but even a little bit worse. And so we gave a range for our outlook on the call, something Intel never does. We always give you a number. This time, we gave a range, right, given the overall economic uncertainty at the time. And I'll say we're within the range for the quarter and for the [y]ear, but trending toward the lower end, right?
And things have generally deteriorated a bit more than we would have forecast earlier in the year, but still within the range or the quarter and the year. But it's pretty rough out there. And a lot of OEMs shifting views and outlook, channel inventory adjustments, and still a lot of economics to work through.
2) Zu Lob und Selbstkritik...
And if we step back from it, obviously, Ice Lake now with Sierra Forest, next year with Emerald Rapids, in '24 with Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids, the road map gets stronger, right? And per the earlier question on execution, our disciplines, quality, and volume deliveries are getting better. That said, our competition has done a good job, right? And we haven't for a number of years, and we're still on a process technology deficit.
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Competition just has too much momentum, and we haven't executed well enough. So we expect That bottoming. The business will be growing. But we do expect that there continues to be some share losses. We're not keeping up with the overall TAM growth until we get later into 25, 26 when we start regaining share—material share gains.
3) Zu Palladius...
Now the problem is products like Sapphire Rapids were started 5 years ago. So we're sort of injecting the new methodology into projects in flight. Right? And while we're making them better, they're not entirely born in the new methodology. So I'd just say execution gets better each year and things like getting full software emulation done before AO tapeouts, shift left of all of these types of things, just good, modern development practices. Hey, they're being incrementally put into every product on the road map.
So Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake and the client side are getting better. The server, Emerald Rapids, Granite Rapids, CRRs are getting better. But it's not until '25 until they were born entirely in the new methodology. But I have confidence that every aspect of the development program is getting better, right, as we go forward because we're inducing more of those engineering disciplines.
4) Zu Tick-Tock (TikTok
)...
And hey, this is what I did for a living when I was an early chip designer, so I have a lot of passion in this area. The other thing that we're reinstituting is what we've called the TikTok methodology, which is the alignment of design with process technology. And with that, it's rebuilding that alignment because fundamentally, if we have the best transistors, Intel will be fine, right? Because even a mediocre design with the best transistors will still be better than the alternatives, right?
If you have a great design with the best transistors, now you have a killer product, right? So here, that 5 nodes in 4 years, rebuilding the process technology machine is going well. And it is essentially a rising tide for product development machines. Now obviously, '24, we think we're competitive. '25, we think we're back to unquestioned leadership with our transistors and process technology. But then we have to rebuild the cadence of products with process technology that is a risk management methodology so that you never miss, right?