A strong Intel is what the tech industry needs right now

Yesterday, while watching Intel's new CEO lay out his plan for the company's future, I started thinking back on the last 15 years of tech. In 2005 I owned a smartphone powered by an Intel processor. The HTC Magician was, like every smartphone in 2005, not great, but it was fully functional, well-received and powered by an XScale ARM chip. A year after I bought the Magician, Intel sold its XScale business for $600 million, believing it would have an ultra-efficient (0.5W!) x86 CPU capable of running Windows Vista by 2010. ARM-based chips were sold inside phones, laptops, games consoles and thousands of IoT devices.