Yes http://www.extremetech.com/computing/190946-stop-obsessing-over-transistor-counts-theyre-a-terrible-way-of-comparing-chips http://www.extremetech.com/comput

Yes http://www.extremetech.com/computing/190946-stop-obsessing-over-transistor-counts-theyre-a-terrible-way-of-comparing-chips http://www.extremetech.com/computing/190946-stop-obsessing-o... But Intel likes wasting a lot of its R&D money on things that never go anywhere. Such as tablets/smartphone https://www.google.com/amp/www.fool.com/amp/investing/general/2016/04/21/intel-corps-contra-revenue-strategy-was-a-huge-was.aspx https://www.google.com/amp/www.fool.com/amp/investing/genera... https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/227720-how-intel-lost-10-billion-and-the-mobile-market https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/227720-how-intel-lost-10... If Intel would have been able to make a good RISC architecture, they probably would have been more successful but, even with all Intel's R&D, they are still a desktop CPU company.