2 anecdotes on why Intel is failing as a company and lessons we should learn from it in Ethereum land 1. They pioneered the x86 standard along with AMD used by all PCs even today A more efficient setup coincidentally called risc V came along decades earlier, but intel passed since x86 was their moat. A competitor called ARM adopted risc V, which wasn't adopted by PCs used to x86 so they survived on Nintendo handheld devices... Until smartphones came along Lesson: adopt the latest architectures if they are clearly better than the evm, don't rely on the moat we have created around its tooling since that's not enough in the long term (hopefully risc V is adopted soon) 2. Intel's main breadwinner was their CPU microprocessor, which processed txns sequentially It printed money for them in the cloud computing days as all servers used their CPU chip Until a niche academic paper in 2010 found that GPUs like nvidia chips could be used to train AI at orders of magnitude cheaper than CPUs,...