I don't disagree that Intel failed to make competitive modem chips but that's not their proverbial bread and butter. Instead it was making x86 chips that, whil

I don't disagree that Intel failed to make competitive modem chips but that's not their proverbial bread and butter. Instead it was making x86 chips that, while Qualcomm's Snapdragon lineup held a virtual monopoly in mobile space, it's a very much apples and oranges comparison - thermal envelopes, performance targets, size, use cases, etc. In hindsight perhaps it's unsurprising this hire didn't pan out and unfortunately it may have torpedoed Intel's short term competitiveness.