> (at which point Intel typically fired their chip design group, hired everyone from AMD or whoever, and came out with Core or whatever)

Didn't the Core architecture come from the Intel Pentium M Israeli team? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_(microarchitecture)...

Yeah, that bit was pure snark - point was Intel’s gotten caught resting on their laurels a couple times when their architectures get a little long in the tooth, and often it’s existential enough that the team that pulls them out of it isn’t the one that put them in it.

Correct. Core came from Pentium M, which actually came from the Israeli team who took the Pentium 3 architecture, and coupled this with the best bits from the Pentium 4