Jean-Louis Gassée, writing for Monday Note:

‘Just you wait’, Intel kept telling us, year after year. ‘Yes, our legacy x86 architecture, dominant in the PC world, hasn’t yet won a place in smartphones and tablets, but our company’s superior manufacturing technology will inevitably lead to victory…’

Last month, Intel finally threw in the towel and tossed thousands of people to the curb.

What happened?

Like a decade long, slow motion train wreck. As each year came and went, I kept thinking, Intel is going to turn soon, right? Great writeup by Jean-Louis Gassée.