Intel announced a 15% layoff today (20,000 employees). I wasn't surprised. My current laptop is an AMD I bought in early 2022 even though my previous six laptops were Intel. I suspected trouble at Intel based on CPU cost and performance comparisons combined with DEI, complexity and technology cycle.

My current laptop:

1) An industry with increasing complexity requires increased precision and accuracy but instead Intel veered into DEI. DEI proponents can shout about racism and equity but the Universe doesn't care. Math is not racist. Believing a Mexican midget, Laotian lesbian and Islamic Indian magically create better software/hardware than three white guys is ridiculous. It was always ridiculous. Magical thinking usually leads to unpleasant outcomes like layoffs, bankruptcies and wars.

2) Diversity is always a cost but sometimes a net benefit.
A diagram from my 2017 DEFCON submission:

3) Intel chose the worst time to embrace DEI. The inflection point of information technology has likely passed and the future of IT will be stagnant with declining profits. The S-curve is the nature of technology revolutions.

An in-depth post about the Inflection Point of Information Technology:

Cost Of Information (COI) - 2000
Over twenty years ago I created this concept which may finally be coming into its own, like the Vertical Web, the Cultural Diffusion and the Gold-backed Digital Currency. The S-Curve: A graph showing the rate of growth of an entity like a business, animal population, etc. It has three important
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