I suspect they picked that chip because tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of its launch (Nov. 15, 1971).
The article makes that clear in its second sentence, and it makes a better title too, so I've moved it above.
This conspiracy goes back further than I'd feared.
You can help yourself by reading it as an inspiration from technologies that changed the world, regardless of what the current situation is. Computer chip and more fundamentally, the invention of transistor is to be reflected not through the lens of Competitor A vs. Competitor B, but through the appreciation of science, engineering, and all the people that made it happen.
You are being downvoted but it absolutely is a puff piece.
it doesn't really matter right? Intel are so screwed