It already sounds like the environment in Intel isn't great, and a lot of the staff dynamics are very driven by cost-cutting. Great video on youtube posted in the last week with a bunch of leaks from Intel employees: https://youtu.be/agxSclh27uo
Pretty standard fare for monopoly/cartel in all segments in America. Pump stock, hit options, golden parachute.
I will say the last time AMD had a brief lead on Intel with Athlon, they laid on their laurels and started milking customers in record time. I think that was Hector Ruiz.
The last time, it was pretty clear from the mobile processors that the core engineering talent was somewhere in the company, I think the Core processor was from an Israeli team rather than the one pushing out the high-frequency pipeline-stalls-be-damned stuff.
But I get the feeling with the stunning, STUNNING process lead collapse that the engineering talent is fundamentally gone.
Intel had a two or three year lead it was thought at one point.
