>>106034484 (OP)They got complacent way back when in their quad-core stagnation days which gave AMD the opportunity to finally strike back with Ryzen. This coincided with Intel fucking up their manufacturing process and thus also their opportunity to make proper competitors for Ryzen and so they entered their 14nm+++++++++++++ days. During this time Intel did little beyond slapping on more cores and pushing clocks higher at the expense of ridiculous power consumption, while Ryzen saw real improvement until it turned from a threat nipping at Intel's heels to the actual performance leader.
Intel eventually sorted their production shit out but it was too little, too late. I also think cloning the ARM big.LITTLE design with trash cores in fucking desktop PC processors was a shit move by Intel. PCs and the software running on PCs weren't meant for that sort of architecture and it takes software and an OS knowingly written for it in order to reap more benefits than the trouble it causes otherwise. It's a bad idea for a segment with decades worth of history and backwards compatibility that has never been meant to work with shit cores that are not only much slower but don't even run the same fucking instruction sets. Really retarded.
In order to recover, what they need is "simple" but the way to get there isn't easy or easily discernible. Obviously, they need to make better products than AMD or to sell them at very attractive prices at the very least. Like AMD did with Ryzen. But this isn't going to be easy, because unlike Intel back then, AMD has actually kept improving Ryzen CPUs and it doesn't look like they're going to be giving Intel years of stagnation in which to play catch-up.