"Never attribute to malice that which can equally be explained by stupidity." Intel is a large company, with lots of engineers, both hardware and software, man

"Never attribute to malice that which can equally be explained by stupidity." Intel is a large company, with lots of engineers, both hardware and software, managers, marketers and project managers. Some really stupid decisions will come out of simple scope creep and someones pet project suddenly becoming the next product. Outside of evidence of actual malevolent intention, what you have here is easily a project gone really really weird.