[choilive]

I always found it ironic that Intel benignly neglected the mobile CPU/SoC market and also lost their process lead despite this supposed culture of never underestimating the competition. The paranoid Intel of the 80s/90s is clearly not the one that existed going into the 2000s and 2010's

[hedgehog]

Intel missed mobile, graphics, and AI, while failing to deliver 10nm, and it was all self-inflicted. They didn't understand what was coming. Transmeta was an easily identified threat to Intel's core CPU products so Intel was more likely to pull out all the stops with above-board competing on product as well as IP infringement and tortious interference. Intel had good risk management in having a team working on evolutions of P6, if that hadn't already been a going concern (see also Timna) coming up with a competitive product in the early 2000s would have been much harder.