alt Hacker NewsThe 15 year comment was moreso a reflection of how they've been running, broadly.
Intel pioneered dram, but that was a long time ago, agreed.
Their more recent exit from 3d xpoint was very unfortunate in timing, though. I think that could have been a very cool technology to use in the current age.
It would be a terrible idea for Intel to return to DRAM. Just like it was a terrible idea to enter the flash market. They are commodity technologies subject to massive supply and demand shocks. Intel made the most money by leading the process node race and shipping the best silicon for servers, and they lost their way through short-sighted financialization games, long bets on losing technology like 3D XPoint, and forcing out their best engineering talent.