Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

It's not like design teams are fixed by some holy power. Intel can shift design teams around at will, and put their AAA team on any project or program they want.

I don't even think that is fair to Intel's mobile design teams.

It may come as a big surprise to some folks here but engineers
don't design any old thing that strikes their fancy.

They get a pretty specific target spec from strategic marketing
folks who are supposed to have a really good idea what features
and specs will make a winning product 2 to 4 years down the road.

You cannot blame Intel's mobile design teams UNLESS they fell
short of achieving in silicon the goals asked of them and that does
not appear to be the case. Whether their design goals were the
RIGHT ones for commercial success is a totally different manner
and is out of the engineer's hands.

If you ask an engineer to design a camel and then enter it in a
horse race and it doesn't win you don't blame the engineer.