>>106023987They literally had too much money until about 2017ish when AMD started to compete again.
Do you know how much money intel wasted on useless project and buying out useless small companies and so much other crap.
By 2017 their focus was on anything but nodes and CPUs they had this vision that RISC is going to beat them in the next 20 years because everyone is going to be using tablets and mobile phones on the consumer side and that servers were going to go RISC too. They probably knew way in advance via corpo espionage that Apple was building their M1.
They knew that just like how the PowerPC architecture died when Apple made the switch to Intel so might Intel die.
They could have at least used Microsoft money and expertise to make a new console APU combo. They could have do so much that would have lead to actual progress.
Instead they decided processors don't need all cores equal it's enough to have P cores and E Cores. That cemented their death.