Intel Corp (INTC)

[Colonel Sanders]

2) Everything else is far from equal. No one other company has
either as good process technology as Intel to make high performance
MPUs or the accumulated knowledge how to design high performance
CPU cores, cache hierarchies, memory systems, and system fabrics.

This is something I have seen you mention a few times now and whilst it would seem to be unquestionably true, I was wondering in what form does this accumulated knowledge take?

Is it in the heads of highly talented design staff and if so, has by any chance a number of them left Intel in recent years and thus taken this knowledge to other companies?


Is there something about this knowledge that Intel has accrued, that they can ensure stays within Intel?