Anybody who has actually worked on a ground-breaking CPU--a really new design, with a radically new architecture--and not just recycled/repackaged third-party I

Anybody who has actually worked on a ground-breaking CPU--a really new design, with a radically new architecture--and not just recycled/repackaged third-party IP--knows that it is always a total disaster. It is always at risk of being shut down by a nervous board. Of course, until the day that it is not. Intel's management arguably made the wrong decision when they shut down Larrabee. Lets face it, at the time they were not making very many good decisions, which is why Intel is in the mess its in now.