[Zardoz89]

Don’t forget when Jim Keller was senior VP (2018-2020) he was tasked with diagnosing the Intel’s rut and shipwrighting its future. His solution was to sell the fabs as he proclaimed them an albatross, for this he was forced out.

Gelsinger came in and with clownish bravado establishing Intel would pivot to as a third party fab service, choosing the path of maximum pain.

We know the answers now: the global delays, defective product generations. The problems Gelsinger faces are the rearing wall of hubris.

[ffgjgf1]

I’m not sure destroying the only significant potential advantage Intel had/(might still have) over its competitors would have been the smartest thing even in hindsight.