Huh? He talked about and linked to a series of his older articles, including this one from 2013. [1] It's been a while.
> Intel is already the best microprocessor manufacturing company in the world
Intel was not driving themselves into the dirt if they are the best in their field. Instead, I'd suggest looking at when the process nodes were achieved:
| | Someone Else | Intel | Lead |
|------+----------------+-------+------|
| 32nm | 2011 (Samsung) | 2009 | 2 |
| 22nm | 2013 (IBM) | 2011 | 2 |
| 14nm | 2015 (Samsung) | 2014 | 1 |
| 10nm | 2017 (Samsung) | 2018 | -1 |
| 7nm | 2018 (TSMC) | 2021 | -3 |