> I know nothing, but it felt like intel paid the price of being the first. As the book goes into, there were other things in question: since TSMC only did fab

> I know nothing, but it felt like intel paid the price of being the first. As the book goes into, there were other things in question: since TSMC only did fab, and did not design, they had more customers/opportunities to iterate the process and get good at it (more focus). There was internal-to-Intel stuff that led to lead loss as well. I'm only partially through the book currently, and there's a lot of chip history being described (going back to the 1950s), so I'm not going to retain all of it in a single pass.