> Intel seemed primed to dominate the chip industry as it transitioned into the era of Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV). The company had played a pivotal role in the development of EUV technology, with Andy Grove’s early investment of $200 million in the 1990s being a crucial factor.
I know nothing, but it felt like intel paid the price of being the first. They picked something hard and pricey.. and it didn't pan out in time, allowing other competitors to catch up and adapt to markets (mobile) nicely.
> I know nothing, but it felt like intel paid the price of being the first.
As the book goes into, there were other things in question: since TSMC only did fab, and did not design, they had more customers/opportunities to iterate the process and get good at it (more focus).
There was internal-to-Intel stuff that led to lead loss as well.
I'm only partially through the book currently, and there's a lot of chip history being described (going back to the 1950s), so I'm not going to retain all of it in a single pass.
Per the book Chip War, Intel put a lot of money into EUV (going back to the late 1990s):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_Wo...
Per the book, and other sources:
> Intel seemed primed to dominate the chip industry as it transitioned into the era of Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV). The company had played a pivotal role in the development of EUV technology, with Andy Grove’s early investment of $200 million in the 1990s being a crucial factor.
* https://techovedas.com/intel-lost-decade-5-reasons-why-chip-...