I think a lot of the analysis of Intel is just looking at a totally broken timeframe. Intel started having problems in early 2010s. It has been sliding since then. To fix it you need to clean house, get aligned on a good chain of management and engineering, then build out a roadmap that gets you back to process leadership and then execute on that roadmap. A year to sort out the organisation, a year to re-vamp the roadmap, probably 2-3 years to execute. Pat was probably the only person with the clout to ask for that time, and he didn't get it (and arguably he didn't really face the scale of the problem). The board failed, but it failed in 2010-2015, there's no point searching for someone to blame now, we're well past the point that the correct answer is to sell it for parts.