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human
I love how people uneducated on the matter love to make up theories.

They have their own fabs to produce CPUs, those fabs hit a wall with 14nm, and barely progressed for years, while TSMC early adopted EUV and passed them. The 10nm successor to 14nm was 'launched' but effectively cancelled as it had so many problems, a new very different 10nmeventually popped back up with Tiger Lake.

Since they hit a wall with their fabs, that meant they couldnt increase core counts or core size without increasing prices significantly each generation. Yes they were stuck on 4-6 core mainstream CPUs, but the prices were the same once you adjusted for inflation.
gpt
It's not a theory that intel got fined for their anti competitive bullshit while having the best chip on market, now is it? Sit there and keep talking down to people though. You're the ignorant one here.