Who’s going to invest their time taping out with a foundry that warns they might pull the plug on future development? It’s self-sabotage, unless of course the point of prolific investor and CEO Lip Bu Tan is to strip the company for parts
Potentially using market dynamics to force a direction that not everyone in the company could otherwise be convinced to go along with. It does feel like Intel's equivalent to the infamous Nokia "Burning platform" memo.