Correct. Core came from Pentium M, which actually came from the Israeli team who took the Pentium 3 architecture, and coupled this with the best bits from the Pentium 4

Yeah, that bit was pure snark - point was Intel’s gotten caught resting on their laurels a couple times when their architectures get a little long in the tooth, and often it’s existential enough that the team that pulls them out of it isn’t the one that put them in it.

I think that's an overly reductive view of a very complicated problem space, with the benefit of hindsight.

If you wanted to make that point, Itanium or 64-bit/multi-core desktop processing would be better examples than Core.

Yes, and the newest Panther Lake too!

https://techtime.news/2025/10/10/intel-25/