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Slumping Intel to cut more than 5,000 jobs in 2014

"Intel plans to trim more than 5,000 jobs from its workforce this year in an effort to boost its earnings amid waning demand for its personal computer chips."

Somehow, I don't think that AMD is the cause for this move.



So what does this mean for us in the flight sim community?

At a guess, you might want to buy/build the best system you can.

Think about it this way: if Intel & AMD produced 10 CPU chips a year, how much do you think that it would cost per CPU.

Simple answer, a lot.


The more that something is massed produced, the cheaper it will become. Conversely, the less something is produced, the more it will cost.

Youthful consumers want portable devices. Me too, for that matter. I have an laptop and an Android tablet.

So who'll need computers, aside from businesses? You and me.


Anyway, my contention is that with less chips & computers being made and sold, in the long run, they'll become more expensive again.

Wait until the current currant CPU supply sells out, and you may be in for a surprise.


Somebody tell me that I've got it all wrong.

Please.

It is a fact that every one of all my family members have long discarded their Tower and Desktop computers in favour of Tablets, Mobile Phones, and Laptops, which they all say are smaller and more convenient and adequately suitable for their daily use!

It is only me left now, who requires? a powerful, upgradeable, hardware/software, Tower Computer plus Monitor, to play all my multitude of computer games both very old and new.

I suspect that the sales of large Desktop computers (and Monitors?), and their internal components, for private use, is gradually diminishing.

For playing computer games, most of them (the youngsters) are now using their X-Boxes and Playstations!

Paul....one of the last of the ancient personal computer breed from the 1970's...!.... ...!

over here in the US - Macys retail department stores announced their laying off 2500 employees and closing like 7 stores nationwide !

SPRINT just announced they'll be laying off thousands the 1st quarter !!

now intel,,, laying off

Well,,, we were told back in the fall that IF that plan of Obamas went thru - we'd see this as it'd drive up Healthcare costs for employers too !

I can also see those companies keeping quiet about it, so as NOT to make some of their Obama-ites madd that might affect their sales even further.

they use fancy Corporate terms like , "re-structuring" and, I like this Fancy Termonolgy - "Changing Marketplace Dynamics", they call it,,,, wonder how many sleepless nites they stayed awake trying to come up with that Fancy term !!!

I see it getting worse thru out the year too !!!

more layoffs !!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/employment-prospects-dim-over-obamacare/

http://www.kctv5.com/story/24486072/sprint-to-have-company-wide-layoffs-in-2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/business/macys-plans-layoffs-and-closings-though-its-holiday-sales-were-up.html?_r=0

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/newspaper-blames-obamacare-for-401k-cuts/

http://www.cbsnews.com/search/obamacare/

. . . . . . . . Personaly




For those who don't understand - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supreme Allied Commander in WWII, two term president - let's just ignore his final warning


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Fozzer wrote:It is a fact that every one of all my family members have long discarded their Tower and Desktop computers in favour of Tablets, Mobile Phones, and Laptops, which they all say are smaller and more convenient and adequately suitable for their daily use!

It is only me left now, who requires? a powerful, upgradeable, hardware/software, Tower Computer plus Monitor, to play all my multitude of computer games both very old and new.

I suspect that the sales of large Desktop computers (and Monitors?), and their internal components, for private use, is gradually diminishing.

For playing computer games, most of them (the youngsters) are now using their X-Boxes and Playstations!

Paul....one of the last of the ancient personal computer breed from the 1970's...!.... ...!

I moved from a tower about five years ago. My present laptop can play FSX at max and is fine for my MOH and COD collection. This laptop, I did spend quite a bit, as it is a gamer laptop, it is also now well over two years old and I have not found anything that it struggles with yet. It has all the ports I need for FSX peripherals, has a 17 inch screen and suits all my uses and requirements. For me (at this time), a tower and upgrading are a thing of the past. I am a laptop convert.....

Matt

Jetranger wrote:I can also see those companies keeping quiet about it, so as NOT to make some of their Obama-ites madd that might affect their sales even further.

Corporate execs decide to lay off employees and the president gets the blame. Huh? Maybe the stock price and the exec's bonuses needed a boost? As far as Intel, the tech business is cyclical and, as noted on here, volatile. Only the Wall Streeters hope for unsustainable constant growth. Me, I'm not going to lose sleep over fear that Intel chips may go up a few dollars. Look at the history of processors and prices.

But ... surely their are other, more appropriate sites where disgruntled right-wingers can bash the president and wail about gloom, doom, and the end of days, the end of the economy, and the end of 1950's-era culture. I bet you can buy some great tinfoil Paul Revere caps and Statue of Liberty costumes at those sites, too.

I think the Simviation's forum guidelines posted by Ozzy72 way back when might be a good thing to read every now and then. My favorite is the first one.

NO POLITICS
NO RELIGION
NO XENOPHOBIA

ftldave wrote:

Jetranger wrote:I can also see those companies keeping quiet about it, so as NOT to make some of their Obama-ites madd that might affect their sales even further.

Corporate execs decide to lay off employees and the president gets the blame. Huh? Maybe the stock price and the exec's bonuses needed a boost? As far as Intel, the tech business is cyclical and, as noted on here, volatile. Only the Wall Streeters hope for unsustainable constant growth. Me, I'm not going to lose sleep over fear that Intel chips may go up a few dollars. Look at the history of processors and prices.

But ... surely their are other, more appropriate sites where disgruntled right-wingers can bash the president and wail about gloom, doom, and the end of days, the end of the economy, and the end of 1950's-era culture. I bet you can buy some great tinfoil Paul Revere caps and Statue of Liberty costumes at those sites, too.

I think the Simviation's forum guidelines posted by Ozzy72 way back when might be a good thing to read every now and then. My favorite is the first one.

NO POLITICS
NO RELIGION
NO XENOPHOBIA

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