The company has seen its fortunes fall as rivals continue to make great strides, both financially and technologically.

An interview with Gates by theAssociated Pressnotes how the billionaire has a soft spot for Intel.

There weredelaystransitioning from the 14nm to 10nm process, followed by thedelayof 7nm.

Bill Gates says Intel has lost its way, fallen behind in chip design and fabrication

Financial troubles have also hurt the company, culminating in theoustingof CEO Pat Gelsinger last year.

“I am stunned that Intel basically lost its way,” Gates said.

He added that Intel co-founder Gordon Moore “always kept Intel at the state of the art.

I was hoping for his sake, for the country’s sake that he would be successful.

I hope Intel recovers, but it looks pretty tough for them at this stage.”

Team Redis dominatingthe Amazon.com processor sales chart while continuing to do well abroad.

Intel’s only solace could be that more Steam survey participants (63%) still use its CPUs.