There is little information available on what was actually going on inside Intel. All big companies have big problems and each single division or working group

There is little information available on what was actually going on inside Intel. All big companies have big problems and each single division or working group is not indicative of the company as a whole. You can find several people with good and bad experience painting all kinds of pictures. A single voice won't tell you the whole picture. Probable even the leaders of Intel don't really know exactly where they are standing. Of course all companies go through cycles of explosive growth, ossification and renewal. Small companies often die because too much of the company goes sour at the same time. In big companies this can be more spread out over time and space and there's always enough left to rebuild the leadership from the inside and push out new profitable products in time. That being said I don't have any indication that Intel right now is in a particularly good position. Nobody in the engineering area seems to feel too honored for having worked at Intel. Yet, they got 10nm finally working and continue to rake in money. Of great concern to me is that much of that money is paid out to investors instead of reinvesting it into the company. There doesn't seem to be a convincing plan of growing the business in the future. Also they did not admit that they have a serious problem at their hands for a long time. You just can't trust anything that Intel releases; it's just a rosy projection of the future when everything goes as planned. Unless a group of senior Ex-Intel get together and tell their war-stories we won't know what actually was going on inside.