New leadership and a more urgent geopolitical landscape has forced many to change their actions if not their outlook. We just need fabs. We have money. Intel ha

New leadership and a more urgent geopolitical landscape has forced many to change their actions if not their outlook. We just need fabs. We have money. Intel has been saying for a long long time that we need fabs, so lets give them the money. personally, I think the gloom and doom around Intel is hate-hype. It's so fun to look at the giants and laugh, but they're still the giants. If you look at the landscape right now, and ignore the past, you see Intel and AMD in a slugfest for domination, and no (?) real other contenders. If AMD were the incumbent, we'd all be cheering Intel, but they're still neck-and-neck regardless. And Intel has other focii, like compilers, HPC software, kiosk form factors, etc, that help round out the offerings (and those are just things I'm familiar with). 20 years ago Microsoft was evil and google was the little-man's angel. Now I'm much more a fan of MS than Google, and feel MS is moving in the right direction while Google is not. It seems generational.