Comment Re:Maybe (Score 2) 81
Intel is going through that process now, with their "Airbus" being AMD.
Back when Intel had the Pentium IV and were concentrating on the Itanium, AMD brought out a new - more energy efficient - generation with 64 bits. Intel then engaged in criminal practices to suppress AMD while catching and then overtaking AMD with processors which subsequently turned out to be vulnerable to Heartbleed. Then AMD reinvented themselves and brought out the Ryzen processors, Intel's response was to appoint a techie - Pat Gelsinger - as CEO in early 2021. Intel shares peaked at just under $70 shortly afterwards, dropped to just under $25 18 months later and are now oscillating around $40 to $50. Gelsinger's reorientation of the company is going to take some time and the stock exchanges are notoriously disinterested in long term planning.
All this reminds me of the "5 year plans" the Soviet Union, China and their satellites used to propagate.