Intel is dying, and it is deeply troubling.
I have literally actively worked in direction of their destruction, designing CPU cores for the competition. I also firmly believe the x86 memory model will not scale to massively multicore systems as efficiently as the arm architecture.
Yet, manufacturing is what killed Intel.
Our society has forgotten death, for humans and for entities.
By virtue of not paying attention to our own History, structures around us feel immortal. We look at giants and assume they will always stand tall, forgetting how their feet are made of clay.
When giants fall, they fall slowly. This is another fallacy of ours. Thinking that the giant will collapse in a shake of thunder, lifting the earth, to piles of dust for all to see. But in reality, it is a slow lowering to the earth as the structure sinks into the ground, the giant now nowhere to be seen on the horizon.
And while the giant crumbles, we will go about our days. And when the giant is gone, we will have forgotten how it once stood above the horizon.