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Is Intel’s roadmap for real?
BY THE TIME you read this, Intel will have rolled out a whole new roadmap, the next waypoint on its journey to renewed technological dominance. Except I can’t help but notice that the company hasn’t come close to delivering on its existing roadmap. You know, the one that has Intel delivering five new chip production nodes in four years?
Jeremy Laird
It was Februar y 2021 that Pat Gelsinger returned triumphantly to the helm of Intel. It was a winning narrative. Intel had lost its way after years of marketing-biased leadership. At last, an engineer was returning to the top job—and not just any engineer, but a former Intel devotee who’d joined the company aged just 18 in 1979 and worked his way up through the firm to become CTO, only to be forced out by those evil marketing suits in 2009. Look what happened to Intel since.