It is a great personal career risk to push such sentiments up into management that have harmful impacts on other partner companies and/or internal projects. In

It is a great personal career risk to push such sentiments up into management that have harmful impacts on other partner companies and/or internal projects. Intel's corporate culture specifically failed to do this with the Ittanium, where the technical failings were ignored. I guess the industry is lucky that Intel Architecture Labs was permitted greater freedom.