Oh, Intel is way ahead of the curve there, friend.

See: broken cablemodem chipsets, poor performing cellular modems, multiple generations of desktop ethernet adapters that don't work properly, uncompetitive processors in all but some very specific markets, CPUs that literally fry themselves to death because they couldn't keep up with AMD's advances so the just just kept cranking the voltage and clock speeds...Intel has been a bucket of Fail for a decade and a half.

And now the US government owns a not-too-shabby chunk of said Winning company thanks to a Very Stable Genius...