It's a tough period for Intel, there's new competition from all sides and it has slept on its success for too long, until Pat came aboard to shift things around

It's a tough period for Intel, there's new competition from all sides and it has slept on its success for too long, until Pat came aboard to shift things around. I believe that they did the right move by investing a lot in fabs. It takes many years to get them running and profitable, but then it's steady income. Now, on their processors business unit, it could be that they never manage to become the #1 again, but they could as well play the AMD strategy now, by selling cheaper hardware, and even eventually become a very small player in this market. It's also curious the other efforts, like their GPU with Battlemage, can they really catch up with decades and have a competitive product? It feels like building all the software needed to properly run games in a GPU like the Radeon or GeForce is a time consuming effort.