I agree. They were helped somewhat by the pandemic and chip shortages from everyone else, but what could have been a disaster for Intel ended up being only a sm

I agree. They were helped somewhat by the pandemic and chip shortages from everyone else, but what could have been a disaster for Intel ended up being only a small blemish. If Intel gets back on track AMD is back in the position of chasing Intel in the cpu space and Nvidia in the GPU space. Worse for them is if Intel starts being a serious contender in GPUs.