I recall watching Dave House, Intel VP, present the i486 at a CHIPS(?) conference in San Jose(?) in about 1988. He stood up, looked at his watch and said will folks it's about 11am and Intel has made more i486 this morning than all the RISC chips vendors (MIPS, SPARC, POWER, etc) have ever shipped.<p>Or was it the ill-fated i860?<p>Anyway the point is that all you have to do is not manage Intel like a penny pinching accountant and it will remain #1 just because it has more money to plough back into (process) R&D.<p>Sadly (for Intel) this is what they did for a couple of decades and only Joe Biden can save their bacon.