Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

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Quite a few decades ago, when I started my PhD, the group met
at a pub. Also present was one former PhD student, who had his
doctorate but, at the time, no job.
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When asked what he was doing, he said he currently was a privat
scholar.  A colleague asked for details, and he said that he
was working on the general solution of the Navier-Stokes equation,
and that he had tried separation of variables, but it didn't work.
We took this as "shut up, I don't want to hear any more questions".
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Some time later, I tried to explain that to a medical doctor.
I told here that it was like claiming he was searching for the cure for
cancer, and that he had tried a saline solution, but it didn't work.