Professor Gerhard Fettweis of The University of Dresden explains how his former students started a company that developed a cellular modem that Intel eventually bought and sold to Apple for the iPhone 7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8IN0l21708
Building a modem is beyond the capability of icdg managers, maybe Intel should buy out Mediatek for their 5G modem.
@nyq - Great and accurate observation. Now add to it that whenever Intel has bought a technology, they ALSO don't have the capability of --integrating-- that technology with x86. Never have, never will.
The further one is away from Intel, the clearer one sees them as a one-trick pony. The end game has a HBS Case Study written all over it.
At this point, Intel is terrified and incapable of developing anything by itself, unless it's a copy paste of a previous x86 architecture. If you look carefully, ALL the "innovative" products (modem, FPGA, AI chips) come from a previously acquired company, not original Intel technology. Infineon, Altera, Mobileye, Movidius, Nervana. ALL of them, no exception. Intel is no longer capable of innovation and instead keeps trying to buy itself to growth.