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		brewdad on May 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel can’t grow profits in a global chip shortage The largest of those layoffs happened during Intel's years in the wilderness when Finance guys ran the company. Engineers are back in the executive leadership now, so hopefully they understand the folly of those past actions.

BeetleB on May 18, 2022 [–]

> The largest of those layoffs happened during Intel's years in the wilderness when Finance guys ran the company

Actually, it happened while Brian Krzanich was the CEO - he's a semiconductor/manufacturing guy who made his career at Intel.

The narrative that beancounters screwed up the company is pretty flawed.

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