Well, SemiAccurate made some claims about some of the cultural problems Intel was having a bit ago. https://semiaccurate.com/2018/06/29/intels-firing-of-ceo-br

Well, SemiAccurate made some claims about some of the cultural problems Intel was having a bit ago. https://semiaccurate.com/2018/06/29/intels-firing-of-ceo-brian-krzanich-is-a-cover-for-deeper-problems/ https://semiaccurate.com/2018/06/29/intels-firing-of-ceo-bri... With regards to the specific technologies Intel was trying to do a lot of new things with 10nm. Initial rumors said that replacing copper with cobalt in some of the metal layers was causing problems. But later rumors were that Contact Over Active Gate (COAG) used mostly in the GPU section of a chip was the main culprit and why none of the early 10nm parts had working GPUs.