Intel’s innovation focus—which relied chiefly upon development—
finally changed when Intel decided to withdraw from the DRAM business.
The DRAM fabrication facility, no longer active, became Intel’s
first development facility. Intel now faced a new risk: the risk that a separate
development group would drift away from the production groups
at the company and thus create a gap between research and development.
Gargini recalled the issue that troubled Intel executives, who
vividly remembered the earlier Fairchild example: