Intel has tried to milk their processor lines like Disney milkes Mickey and Donald Duck
Maybe charging a premium price for not so premium performance is not a winning play
And intel is getting squeezed from the bottom up by disruptive advances by the smart phone chip foundries that are in a nuclear arms race for processing power and minimum energy consumption are stealing economy of scale away from the legacy chip makers
Apple has dumped Intel for their own chip architecture which blows intel away
I capitalize every 5-7 years which involves a rather large nut. My latest workstation has a Threadripper instead of a pair of XEONs. Very happy. Servers are a different story for the obvious reasons.
Internal power struggles damaged Intel along with outsourcing.
I worked there for 27 years and loved it until Paul Ordelini retired.