A single-page, comic/infographic-style deep-dive into Intel's journey from the dot-com peak to the A0 era. Part visual essay, part post-mortem.

Thesis: Intel never lacked vision — it lacked execution.

Time and again Intel saw the future early, placed a bet, and then failed to follow through. This page walks through the bets it whiffed on, the reckoning that followed, and where the company stands in 2026.

A static, self-contained page. No build step, no framework — just HTML, CSS, a sprinkle of JS, and one big infographic.

• index.html — the page
• styles.css — styling
• script.js — light interactivity
• assets/intel-journey-infographic.png — the featured 3×3 infographic

• Hero — sets the scene and the thesis.
• Thesis — the core argument: vision was never the problem.
• Featured infographic — a 3×3 grid summarizing the full 2000–2026 arc.
• Phase 1 — The Five Fumbles: the bets Intel saw coming and still missed.
  • Mobile — XScale (sold off right before the smartphone boom).
  • AI & GPU — Larrabee, Nervana, Movidius, Habana.
  • Software — McAfee, Wind River.
  • Wearables & IoT — Basis, Recon, Edison.
  • Manufacturing collapse — the 10nm stall that broke the cadence.
• Phase 2 — The Reckoning: the cost of the misses, culminating in Lip-Bu Tan taking the helm in March 2025.
• Phase 3 — The A0 Era (2026): where Intel goes from here.

It's a static site, so either works:

# Option A — just open it
open index.html

# Option B — serve it (recommended, avoids file:// quirks)
python3 -m http.server
# then visit http://localhost:8000

Deployed via GitHub Pages. A .nojekyll file is included so Pages serves the files as-is without Jekyll processing.

Infographic provided by the author.