The vast majority of the semiconductor market doesn't use bleeding edge nodes, even at TSMC which only has something like 20% of their current production on ind

The vast majority of the semiconductor market doesn't use bleeding edge nodes, even at TSMC which only has something like 20% of their current production on industry leading nodes. Even if Intel never catches up to TSMC and remains a year or two behind, that still leaves them a huge percentage of the market that they can potentially serve. There is a lot of money and volume in boring, unsexy chips like automotive and industrial microcontrollers and the like.