The most interesting question is whether the dead Intel process node should be blamed on bad choices (e.g. deferring adoption of EUV lithography) or on incompetence, and also on shortsighted financial management or on optimistic/clueless technical leadership: we can live without Cannon Lake CPUs, but where will Intel be in 5 years?
> Our sources tell us it had to do primarily with Intel overextending too early. SAQP or Self Aligning Quad Patterning is the technique the company used to make its 10nm process and it was the first in the industry to attempt to do so.
