Comment Re:I have put off buying one of their gpus (Score 2) 47
I was never sure that they had the "best engineers", but they did have the best processes to make IC's.
They had (and still have) excellent engineers, but a terrible corporate reward structure. In my experience with them, engineers who worked on expensive high-margin products were rewarded and promoted. Everyone else was shoved aside.
Ever wonder why Intel made zero inroads into low-cost computing? They had the processes and the talent to do it, and even made an attempt with the (now cancelled) Galileo, Joule, and Edison product lines. But every time I contacted their Galileo group, a completely different group of engineers were running it. It was a dead-end career move at Intel, and every competent engineer tried to get out as quickly as possible.
Until and unless the internal corporate reward structure changes at Intel, the death spiral will continue.