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posted by martyb on Tuesday April 18 2017, @12:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the unforseen-development dept.

IDF is no more:

In a bit of breaking news this [Monday] morning, it appears that Intel has decided to cancel their Intel Developer Forum tradeshow going forward, including this summer's expected IDF17.

In an announcement posted on the IDF website, Intel has announced that IDF is no more, and that the entire IDF program is ending.

Intel has evolved its event portfolio and decided to retire the IDF program moving forward. Thank you for nearly 20 great years with the Intel Developer Forum! Intel has a number of resources available on intel.com, including a Resource and Design Center with documentation, software, and tools for designers, engineers, and developers. As always, our customers, partners, and developers should reach out to their Intel representative with questions.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @01:30PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @01:30PM (#495833)

    Finally: Less marketing, and more engineering.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @01:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 18 2017, @01:50PM (#495843)

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/3190429/computers/intel-scraps-annual-idf-event-as-it-looks-beyond-pcs.html [pcworld.com]

    But with the PC market slowing down, the attraction of IDF has also dwindled. Intel's future isn't tied to PCs but instead to areas like data centers, autonomous cars, modems, the internet of things, and manufacturing.

  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:05PM (9 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:05PM (#495848)

    Finally: Less marketing, and more engineering.

    https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/diversity/diversity-at-intel.html [intel.com]

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/04/21/intel-lays-off-12k-looking-import-11600-foreign-workers-since-2010/ [breitbart.com]

    "Technology giant Intel announced April 19 it will fire 12,000 skilled U.S.-based professionals — after already swelling its workforce with 14,523 requests in Washington D.C. since 2010 for visas to import foreign professionals through the controversial H-1B and Green Card programs."

    Looks like more diversity hires and more lower skilled cheaper H1B rather than more engineering being done.

    Its pretty much a dying company. There's a reason commodity memory and LAN card manufacturers aren't a household name. The era of $1K CPUs is dying and along with it, Intel.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:46PM (3 children)

      by TheGratefulNet (659) on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:46PM (#495868)

      last year, intel tried a huge marketing move: they sponsored the TBS reality tv show 'americas greatest makers' and it ran for about 8 episodes for season 1 (march of 2016). there was supposed to be a season2 this year but it seems it got canceled:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Greatest_Makers [wikipedia.org]

      see the last line in the summary: "As of April 4 2017 the show has been canceled."

      I worked at intel at the time and I was aware of what was going on in season1. did not surprise me at all that they didn't get a 2nd season out of it.

      so much politics at intel! good engineering takes a back seat to 'dont make waves' and 'dont challenge the boss, even if he's dead wrong'.

      sigh..

      --
      "It is now safe to switch off your computer."
      • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 18 2017, @09:54PM

        by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday April 18 2017, @09:54PM (#496039) Journal

        so much politics at intel! good engineering takes a back seat to 'dont make waves' and 'dont challenge the boss, even if he's dead wrong'.

        Seems like the hallmark of a company on the decline. Eventually someone gets fed up and develop the stuff elsewhere..

      • (Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday April 19 2017, @10:50AM

        by anubi (2828) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @10:50AM (#496234) Journal

        Interesting... this is usually the kind of thing I see when a quite productive and growing company is sold by its founder to investors.

        They buy a goose laying golden eggs; and they just can't wait to get the rights to kill the goose and raid its gut.

        Pay their management and legal team big bonuses, while telling the stockholders, " we've had a disappointing quarter " .

        Then sell the gutted carcass as cat food.

        I watched that happen in several companies... I was working in one at the time the investors bought.

        --
        "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @10:40PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @10:40PM (#496593)

        Despite being retired for 20 years.

        Still haven't get him to even operate a computer with an AMD chip in it because of prejudices from 25+ years ago (And despite the amount of employee shuffling between them and other chipmakers, some of whom he might have known.)

        Additionally a number of former coworkers have gotten bumped in the layoffs the past 3 years or so, but still he defends them.

        So sad, but makes me understand why the old have to die off to make room for the new. It's too bad he didn't do more with what he learned AFTER retiring from that shithole.

        Also: Fuck Signed Firmware. Intel may have been the first of the commercial chips, but ARM and then AMD were far too quick in ensuring their own adoption.

        And people wonder why computers as general purpose devices are dying out...

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday April 18 2017, @04:18PM

      by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Tuesday April 18 2017, @04:18PM (#495894) Journal

      Note however that Indians and others they hire by importing cheap labor don't quite count as “diversity.” Tech will remain a career choice that only racists and sexists make.

      As much as I love learning new languages and cultures, if it's sending wages going down and doing nothing about the Narrative, what's the damned point?

      It's more about knocking those dorks who never “get laid” (translation: be complacent little sex objects for cisfemales who want to collect child support payments) down a few notches. <sarcasm>Who said some smelly dorks were allowed to be middle class?</sarcasm>

    • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Tuesday April 18 2017, @04:45PM (3 children)

      by epitaxial (3165) on Tuesday April 18 2017, @04:45PM (#495904)

      Oh yeah Intel is dying. Sure. I will be on the lookout for their chapter 11 notice.

      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday April 18 2017, @08:29PM (1 child)

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday April 18 2017, @08:29PM (#496000)

        They absolutely *are* dying. The question is: how fast? A newborn baby is also dying, after all, but it'll likely take nearly a century for the baby to finally kick the bucket.

        IBM has been "dying" for a long time; they were dying when I was a kid and they had those disastrous PS/2 computers. I'm still waiting for them to declare bankruptcy though.

        And don't forget AOL. Haven't they been dead for a long, long time? Still no bankruptcy.

        Radio Shack has been dying for a long time too. They've gone through 2 bankruptcies so far (IIRC). I still see their stores sometimes.

        • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday April 18 2017, @08:48PM

          by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 18 2017, @08:48PM (#496008)

          We could declare Intel practically dead for all reasonable purposes when the average joe on the street says "huh?" when asked about Intel but knows all about the Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU in his phone.

      • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 18 2017, @09:58PM

        by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday April 18 2017, @09:58PM (#496041) Journal

        They won't die, they just become more irrelevant and marginalized with time. When commodity good performance/low price PCs come with ARM64 etc. They will have a problem.