What’s wrong with Intel, and how to fix it: Former principal engineer, Francois Piednoël, unloads
In a blunt video posted in early August, outspoken former Intel principal engineer Francois Piednoël offered his advice on how to “fix” Intel CPUs, criticized current leadership for not being engineers, said AVX512 was a misadventure, and declared that it’s only luck AMD hasn’t grabbed more market share.
“First, Intel is really out of focus,” Piednoël said in the nearly hour-long video presentation. “The leaders of Intel today are not engineers, they are not people who understand what to design to the market.”
Piednoël said Intel’s technical decisions have largely been “nonsense” since 2016. Incidentally, Piednoël left Intel in 2017 after serving as a principal engineer and performance architect for 20 years, working on CPUs from the Pentium III to the 6th-gen Core i7. The
