Intel staff lay off

[Gari Ferret]

So, It turns out that last week, Intel decided to axe several of it's most experienced staff at it's "Wind River" facility which has been involved in the development of VxWorks for NASA rovers, spacecraft, military computer systems and industry, news site "The Register", were told by one of those who got the axe;

 

 

"Wind River, which is a subsidiary of Intel, has just laid off many of their long-term employees, some who have worked there for 25 years,"

 

"They have laid off the last engineer who worked on the version of the operating system used on spacecraft."

 

This comes almost a year after Wind River was fined $750,000 for exporting encryption to places such as China and also after a major security bug was found in VxWorks this month.

This round of redundencies is rather surprising given that many people, including those at "The Register", said;

 

 

The operating system is otherwise a very neat piece of kit that supports multi-processor systems, and multiple guest operating systems on its hypervisor. It is focused on providing a secure, deterministic, and reliable base on which critical software for military, aerospace, medical, energy, and robotics applications can run. It is now playing a role in Intel's Internet-of-Things push.

 

River Farm wouldn't comment about the redundencies but Jessica Miller, Wind River's director of corporate communications, did tell The Register;

 

 

"Wind River does not comment on personnel matters and we don’t engage in speculation about these kinds of matters,"

 

What does this mean for space exploration? Only time will tell, links to news sources are below so you can read the full details.

 

Original links:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/24/intel_windriver_layoffs/

 

http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/38866-intel-lays-off-staff-at-wind-river

[DannyRyu]

All I want is the alcubierre drive

[Bloodyvalley]

all I want is Moore's law to continue on

[Nova Dwagon]

Well Intel is pulling an nvidia and it went wrong

[Bloodyvalley]

Well Intel is pulling an nvidia and it went wrong

I think Intel is pulling a Microsoft

[Guest Kloaked]

"Equality."

 

Intel is all about that equality checklist, but they're going to continue to axe jobs.

 

Well Intel is pulling an nvidia and it went wrong

 

An Nvidia with what? I guess I missed something.

[PlayStation 2]

Well Intel is pulling an nvidia and it went wrong

This doesn't surprise me.

[PetiteBob]

Every company need to sack a few of the oldies for some new ones. Most of them probably worked on the apple 2

[Nova Dwagon]

Pulling an nvidia = Increasing the proformance a small ammount

but they failed because its a CPU not a GPU thats why only nvidia can do it

[Zah]

So does Intel just not need anyone working on space stuff anymore?

[marldorthegreat]

all I want is Moore's law to continue on

Theres no point. It wont keep up.

[Lethal Seraph]

Isn't Intel switching to all automated manufacturing anyway? Maybe this place just the first on the chopping block because of recent events it had been involved.

[bogus]

RIP... AMD?

[DaRk0]

RIP... AMD?

Wrong thread m9.

[Guest Kloaked]

Pulling an nvidia = Increasing the proformance a small ammount

but they failed because its a CPU not a GPU thats why only nvidia can do it

 

I don't see how cutting jobs is pulling an Nvidia?

[Nova Dwagon]

I don't see how cutting jobs is pulling an Nvidia?

There skylakes arnt selling that well because there 4% better than the previos "pulling a nvidia", but the cutting jobs part... thats just bad