Dancing solo in the star-studded ballet of the tech industry, Intel's chief, Pat Gelsinger, cartwheels onto center stage. Outfitted in confidence and bolstered by a history of innovative strides, he announces he's ready to fly solo on chip manufacturing.
Once upon a time, Intel rode the cresting wave of groundbreaking technology, revolutionizing our digital ecosystem with their iconic microprocessors. It's impossible not to pay homage to the humming beat of their Pentium processors that powered our digital dreams in the '90s. But in this ever-changing landscape of technology, the dragons of delay started breathing fire on Intel's parade. A 7-nanometer chip that was due yesterday, became a tale for the distant tomorrow. It was not for the lack of tries. The tech giant flexed every muscle in its engineering physique but the gap between plans and reality grew larger and not even the quantum leap could cross it.
