They should have been suffocating their R&D with cash, but has that happened? Instead Intel is the world leader in buying companies, dissolving them and EOLing their products. I think on more than one occasion, they bought a customer hardware company and refunded every buyer of whatever gadget that company made.
[0] "Proportionately, employees in their 50s were three times more likely to lose their jobs than workers in their 30s, according to a document obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive that tallies every Intel employee in the United States."
[0] https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2015/08/intel_layo...
* Broken 10nm and 7nm fab process. No end in sight. Even IBM could surpass them.
* Even with much stricter memory guarantee orderings they managed to break caching and C3 kernel/ user seperation security (Spectre, Meltdown, ...).
* Temperature management. Eg AVX512!
* The government "mandated" backdoors.
Who would have expected such massive Boeing-like fuckups from the industry leader?
Let me know when you find one.
Of course a generally competent government probably wouldn't decide it'd be a good idea to backdoor CPUs, but that's another issue.