Yeah. Process leadership was always Intel’s secret sauce. They could put out mediocre designs tied to the x86 albatross as long as they were consistently ahead

Yeah. Process leadership was always Intel’s secret sauce. They could put out mediocre designs tied to the x86 albatross as long as they were consistently ahead of everyone else on process. When that stopped, they were left with mediocre designs and the albatross, but several process nodes behind others on TSMC. The hidden handicaps became apparent and made the problem worse.