Here's some input from someone in this industry. The quality of employees from Intel is trash, whenever we interview someone who used to work at Intel, it is a disaster. The common pattern is: they got the job through a referral, semi-lied about their skills, worked their ass off in the first year or so actually learning the narrow portions of the relevant skills required to survive. Then quickly switch to management or switch jobs before anyone figures out they are idiots. I am not sure what kind of management has caused this, but the results are clear. (I do think INTC is undervalued though \^_^ )

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Didn't INTC just get a large amount of funding to build a chip manufacturing plant in AZ?

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My 2nd option was an INTC call expiring next Friday. We'll see if I truly belong here.

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INTC calls

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Intc and AMDs ceo will be replaced watch!

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Sold $INTC at $36 (finally!) and immediately reinvested into $GOOGL at $136. We know how that has played. Will look again at $INTC at $25 and below.

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The real competition is not AMD or INTC but GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, AAPL

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The only people who don’t hold INTC are too poor to hold INTC until it’s worth talking about again 

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To be fair INTC is a dog so...

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First thing is to buy a stock that sees regular action, and is a quality buy (not penny stocks or OTC stuff). Maybe something like $INTC. At $30 a share you'll need around $3000 for a tradeable block of 100 you can use to write a covered call. In a worst-case scenario your shares can get called away from you, but you won't lose any principal and can get another 100 shares and try again. Naked calls and puts are where you can get hurt badly.

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