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We can pretend we're building a bridge, but there could be another company, that is more comfortable with changing requirements and may deliver their product later, but more suited to a market.
That's one of the reasons why I work where I work, because PMs don't stand between us and the clients.
My guess is that they were too optimistic with 10nm and no one started an alternative project on 14nm when the time was right.
They already claim +18% IPC on Ice Lake (because they basically dropped at least one generation and fixed security issues at least partially). When they resolve problems with the process (either by succeeding with 7nm or switching to TSMC) they will be very likely competetive again.
If the next process won't work their only option would be to switch to TSMC.
I disabled the extension, I don't even use it anymore.
I imagine it would horrible performance-wise. You would need to store list of browser fingerprints and check it on every view.