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For those who don't know: Intel lost its technological leadership in chip production to TSMC years ago, which means their chips are no longer competitive and have to be sold at a much lower profit margin or even use chips that are produced by TSMC, which leaves Intel little money to develop and build their chip fabs.

If they can't catch up, which seems somewhat likely at this point, they will have to sell their fab business (if anyone wants it) and focus on just designing CPUs, similar to AMD.



I blame INTC marketing that restricted innovation when they had a clear lead to squeeze maximum profits from the current generations. I hope INTC crashes and burns spectacularly.




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