Intel has made some major strategic errors and may not be able to bounce back. At least, they won’t bounce back with the company looking the same as it did. Their fabs need to be spun off to an independent subsidiary–which is apparently already underway–which will eventually be spun off entirely like AMD did with Global Foundries. The remaining company focuses on engineering. The resulting company won’t have the same assets, but could potentially get them back to doing good work.

AMD’s chiplet design has proven to be the way to go, and Intel has been struggling to replicate it across their entire lineup. I can get into the details of how genius it is, but suffice it to say that it lets AMD be extremely responsive to changes in the market in ways that were never possible before.

So is Intel undervalued? I don’t think so. The market has decided their problems are so negative that it drags down the company below what their direct assets are actually worth, and the market is probably right. However, this is not a death sentence, and there are ways that the company can go on.