Yeah but it was the return to the wrong engineer. While Pat allegedly architecting i486 is major respect, it was ultimately an iteration of i386 which is where the alpha is at. Guy who architected i386 (John Crawford) is too old. So that leaves Intel Core which was architected by Uri Frank. Now get this. Two weeks after Pat Gelsinger is appointed CEO of Intel in February 2021, Uri Frank announces he's going to be joining Google to lead the development of their cloud chips. That guy is probably Intel's natural leader. So it'd be interesting to know if there's more to this story.