"the rot set in when Paul Otellini replaced Craig Barrett as CEO way back in 2005. Barrett had a PhD in materials science from Stanford. Otellini was an economics grad with an MBA. Put simply, sales replaced engineering at the top of Intel."
TLDR: Intel is suffering from Boeing disease.
https://hachyderm.io/@stevel/112903283602509052
@cstross as an engineer, the “engineer good, MBA bad” mantra assuages my ego, but it’s oversimplified. Harry Stonecipher, who instilled the rot into Boeing, had a STEM background.