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Merom (aka Core) was that miracle chip spawned from their Israeli mobile division which has carried them for 20 years.They sat on their laurels for too long and got too complacent. The Core series was so awesome that AMD took 10 years to catch up....but catch up AMD did while Intel decided kind of side step performance improvements for like 8 generations.
Prior to that, in the Netburst days, they essentially paid OEMs to forgo using AMD’s chips even though they were superior. AMD sued in 2005 and Intel settled for $1.25 billion in 2009. The EU also fined Intel for anticompetitive practices in this timeframe.
If it weren’t for Merom and if it weren’t for anticompetitive practices, Intel would have been facing this same fate a long time ago.
The point I’m trying to make is that not much really changed, their small mobile division just created one really good architecture 20 years ago. That was actually the outlier, not the norm.