By the way, regarding yields and execution, the last time Intel got a non defeatured/delayed process was 32nm process.
That's right, 32nm was the last generation. Not 22nm. 22nm was delayed 6+ months. I read that there were tremendous yield issues but they pretty much got it fixed at the last minute. 14nm was delayed over a year, but nobody knows that, since 10nm was delayed 3+ years.
14nm likely got delayed for the same reason 10nm did, it was too ambitious. You see, until 22nm, in density wise compared to TSMC, they weren't true 22nm. Intel's 22nm was only about 30% more density compared to TSMC's 28nm. Meaning calling it 24nm would have been more accurate. On 14nm though, they decided to close the gap, only for the sake of mobile, since desktops didn't benefit from it anyway(other than GPU which sucked anyway).
If 22nm was a tremendously difficult step, what do you think happens to execution when you up the difficulty on a shrink of the process when every step gets harder and harder? And on 10nm, they decided to triple down, rather than learning from 22nm/14nm.
When BK got fired, he moved to a much smaller, lesser known company. He was rated similarly terrible by employees on comparably as when he was at Intel.
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