[_jal]

Intel is TBTF. Like the banks but in via different mechanism, they appear to have reached consequence-immunity by becoming critical infrastructure.

[curun1r]

The same could've been said about Microsoft 10-15 years ago. Now, we could probably get by without them.

Intel may be too big for an abrupt failure, but they can absolutely fail in a decade-long slide into obscurity.

[Feniks]

Feature of the industry. It would take a new corp entering into the chip industry hundreds of billions and decades to get where Intel is today.