[n7pdx]

Yeah, they are done. Worked there for 15+ years in the CPU design org. The total collapse of the technical cadre in the 2010s will be studied in business schools as a case study of how to destroy a tech company from within even as they faced no competition. Intel has a dire competence problem that is impossible to address since the vast majority of management are lifers who are only interested in preserving the only system they know and not even the CEO can take on such an entrenched bureaucracy.

Any talk of Intel beating Apple/AMD in "performance" while being behind in process technology is ignorant of the engineering metrics that really matter in the industry, as well as the actual impact of process shrinks in the year 2022.