The Core were good but also AMD fumbled with bulldozer which left them floundering until the Zen era. AMD has been doing pretty well from a strategic point of

The Core were good but also AMD fumbled with bulldozer which left them floundering until the Zen era. AMD has been doing pretty well from a strategic point of view, specifically in high volume data centre SKUs, and so it's hard to see Intel being given as wide a window this time. And there are now also other players looking to take some market share, most notably Nvidia, but also all the big players are looking at their own in house ARM silicon. The road back for Intel is not going to be nearly as wide and smooth as it was for Core.