Federico Faggin, who designed Intel’s first commercial microprocessor, laments the company’s decline. “About 15 years ago, Intel was two generations ahead… Now, it’s two generations behind,” he tells Mac|Life.
Founded in 1968 and for decades the market leader, Intel is in troubled waters, and the problems go beyond the company’s failure to embrace the mobile market. It has suffered the embarrassment of crashes involving its 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core i9CPUs, and seen Apple —which ditched Intel x86 architecture in 2020 in favor of its own silicon chips — make great headway.