Intel's main cuck is their reliance on their Fabs for their CPUs. One way to look at it is that Intels CPUs are competitive in the consumer space against AMD despite having a pretty big node disadvantage. V-cache was also made possible by TSMC otherwise Zen 4 as a whole would be a big flop like how vanilla zen 4 was when it launched. With that being said, it's not to take credit away from AMD but unlike Nvidia where their architecture can carry them through node disadvantages, I don't have much confidence on AMD being able to do the same if Intel was on TSMC for their CPUs as well.
But at the end of the day, the end product is what matters and AMD is able to give comparable if not better performance than Intel while flexing key benefits such as longevity on their platform while Intel continues to be super power hungry while not providing any real benefits while getting slaughtered left right and center in the datacenter whether it's in the CPU space by AMD or GPU space by Nvidia or by both in the Ai space.
Intels fabs is what's sinking the ship that continues to force them to sack many projects.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
