Fixing Intel Foundry Is Like Stopping Tripping Down The Stairs
Technical debt is a real thing, as any IT manager, programmer, system administrator or SRE, or end user will tell you. If you save money in the short run by not keeping up, you always end up paying with interest when you are backed into a place where you do have to catch up.
So it is with Intel, which has come perilously close to irrelevancy in such a short time through a mix of foolishness, arrogance, and honest mistakes. For many decades, Intel was a very good chip manufacturer that also happened to be a chip designer, which just so happened to be the Intel Foundry’s only customer.
The foundry and products groups at Intel really did act like two interdependent but separate companies.
Technical debt is a real thing
Author summary: Intel faces technical debt issues.