The writing was on the wall years ago. Intel became one of those "big company" places without much of a competitive spirit, and they started focusing more on pe

The writing was on the wall years ago. Intel became one of those "big company" places without much of a competitive spirit, and they started focusing more on pet projects (technical and not), internal politics, and all the other decay products of bigcorpism instead of continuing to advance chips. AMD, meanwhile, had existential pressure to get better at their core business, and it eventually worked. It's a pattern you see over and over again.