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To: kash johal who wrote (111881)	9/30/2000 12:41:04 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

<They need an outsider to renergise the troops and take an axe to the middle management.> Designing processors is not a fist fight. If teams are not capable of delivering new designs, it does not help to "re-energize" them. What is happening IMO is a simple company-wide stagnation due to years of rest on laurels. Who is the "middle management" today? Former designers who were promoted to their level of incompetence. They probably were not the brightest amongst designers too - usually the brightest ones leave a company that was like a prison camp with it's gantlet discipline. Design complexity apparently has overgrown their capabilities to assess and solve problems. More, since their compensation is heavily tied to performance of stock options, all they can do is continuously watch RTQs with little time left for actual job. Now, who is in teams today? Arrogant and pushy youngsters with lots of ambitions but no experience - we have many examples here. And the recent results in the marketplace speak for themselves - there were no new designs delivered without major screw-ups. The "troops" just cannot deliver. Therefore, IMO, re-energizing would not help. It would take at least two-three years to build new teams that actually work, and if the microprocessor business will be still afloat at Intel. Regards, - Ali