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Business 29 min

How Intel Actually Killed Memory

The most famous pivot in business history was already over before it started.

Intel's exit from memory chips is taught as a moment of strategic clarity: Grove and Moore made the hard call, and the company was saved. The raw version, with its holdouts, near-reversals, and a margin of seven days, looks less like decisive leadership and more like a fight the pivot barely survived.

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