Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is not one to speak purely in PR friendly terms. With his engineering background, he has a deep understanding of Intel's technologies, and isn't afraid to voice his opinion on a variety of subjects—including Intel itself. Gelsinger was asked by Digit about what he considered to be Intel's biggest misses. His answers were somewhat obvious to outsiders but nevertheless illuminating.
Gelsinger mentioned three areas he considered to be failures. They are Intel's failure to make inroads into the smartphone market, the cancellation of the Larrabee general purpose GPU and Intel's overcommitment to building bleeding edge foundries.