Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? and also turn down the general grumpiness? You've unfortunately been doing these things repeatedly. They aren't what this site is for and destroy what it is for.
It's very widespread. But if you look past the stock trade and the pop-psychology, it's pretty clear that Intel today is on a different trajectory than they were 10 years ago. In that time they've changed CEOs, reframed their roadmap, kickstarted auxiliary businesses and invested in RISC development. The catastrophic potential of Intel losing desktop market share was overstated and over-anticipated. Now, cutting off their desktop segment is practically the most profitable route.
HN has a habit of jumping the gun on financials without accounting for what the market is doing or where things are going. Intel doesn't have the dominant position they used to, but their trajectory is heads-I-win-tails-you-lose levels of redundant. Their roadmap is the good kind of boring, and they're the only fab I know that has TSMC's flagship products in the crosshairs. We're desperately trying to declare Intel dead while already anticipating their resurrection; that suggests to me there's a good pulse left.
I expect the problem is more that people disregard fundamental truths because they think macroeconomics supersedes realpolitik. It's a particularly HN-oriented tradition that leaves a lot of people with sore-looking opinions after the fact.
