I wonder, why Intel abandoned the mobile market? I think only a single smartphone was released using an Intel CPU.
That is the thing with a lot of these side projects Intel is always working on. It would be great if they actually delivered good products, but they often spend billions acquiring these companies and developing these products only to turn out one or two broken products and then dump the whole project.
I think this time is different with Xe, but I can't blame anyone for looking at the past history and being dubious that Intel is in it for the long haul.
I know that these probably are solvable problems, but they left a pretty bad taste...