It's possible, of course, that Intel is just doomed but I don't see that we have any reason to think Intel would be better off taking Ben's advice than not. In

It's possible, of course, that Intel is just doomed but I don't see that we have any reason to think Intel would be better off taking Ben's advice than not. Integration has hurt them in the last few years but again they could quite plausibly have ended up in a worse place now if they'd gone the foundry route years ago. I'm pretty certain that Intel's manufacturing arm would do much worse without being tied to the design arm and I think it's a tossup, going forward, whether the design arm will benefit or be hurt from being tied to the manufacturing arm.