Foundry? 18a has no external customers and 14a is unlikely to see the light of day at this rate.
CPUs? ARM is taking market share from x86 every year. Even if x86 never truly dies, we will be left with shrinking revenue quarter after quarter.
GPUs? Lmao.
The current set of news about Intel tells the whole story. TSMC will fab 18a. No customers for 14a because it’s too little too late. LBTs going to layoff everyone sell the fans and design cutting edge chips all by himself. It’s the worst corporate train wreck the world has ever seen.
google "strongarm dec". you will find a wiki page for an amazing arm design that DEC handed to Intel, and they tossed aside because it was not i86. so sad.
quoting the wiki "DEC agreed to sell StrongARM to Intel as part of a lawsuit settlement in 1997.[6] Intel used the StrongARM to replace their ailing line of RISC processors, the i860 and i960." Not really. They had no idea what to do with it.
Step 1: steal underwear
Step 2: ??
Step 3: Profits!