TRADE CHAT
Is this Intel’s last stand?
I’VE BEEN FOLLOWING Intel for 20 years, and things have never looked this bad. Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs have a serious instability problem, and it’s the last thing the company needs as it struggles to turn its chip-manufacturing fabs around and keep up with AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. What’s going on, and can Intel survive this latest catastrophe?
Jeremy Laird
When Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in 2021, I don’t think I was alone in feeling optimistic. At last, there was an engineer in control. Sure, Intel was experiencing something of a lost decade due to complacency over its CPU roadmap and failure at its fabs, but the future looked bright.