I dont think there is a single, legal, anti-consumer tactic that AMD did not do at some point in time. Im really sick of that "one is good and the other is bad" thing. That is not real.
On Intel defense, they had way too many issues with both 14 and 10nm, not sure if it was a anti-consumer tactic, or that they just failed badly with these two process. If 10nm was good, they whould probably had 8C CNL-S in the market, and Ryzen whould not be a issue at all to them.
I've read a translated version of CanardPC's article about Intel. The accusations make sense. It says the problem was due to Brian Kraznich, the current CEO, and Paul Otellini the previous CEO.
Paul Otellini was clearly the better CEO. But he made strategic blunders. Overall execution(I guess micro execution?) was far more solid. They should have chosen David Perlmutter as a CEO instead. They say he didn't get chosen cause he wasn't American. There was also his age though. I think he would have been 63 if he became CEO. Very close to retirement, and I've heard Intel doesn't like to keep people beyond retirement age.
How bad are the process technology delays? Well, they do say 10nm is insanely hard to do, and other manufacturers like TSMC and Samsung won't do much better. But Intel was the one that had the decisive lead. I don't even know they have any lead anymore. Their claims of process superiority seems nothing different than what TSMC and others are saying. Their claims used to have some merit.
No delay:
Mid to late 2014: 14nm Broadwell
Mid to late 2015: Skylake
Mid to late 2016: Cannonlake
Yea... that's how bad. Man its amazing how much better at execution Nvidia is. Nvidia clobbers them everywhere where the two directly compete. Jen-Hsun Huang led Intel+Nvidia would have been awesome. Heck its a toss up between HP's Leo Apotheker and Brian Kraznich for who's more of a terrible CEO.
I've made an observation few years ago that companies accelerate the decline when faced with challenges. I've seen management make appalling decisions at Blackberry(RIM) and Nokia. Rise of mobile is what would be killing these companies if it happens. All the things that characterized HP, Intel as great companies, none of them apply today, none. There's no such thing as the "HP way" or "Only the Paranoid survive". They both died when the CEOs that followed that sort of discipline gave way to their successor. They are both run by accountants who wants nothing but micromanage its finances and extract every cent from employees and customers.