Microprocessor giant Intel‘s (NASDAQ: INTC) doubling down on its highly lucrative data-center business has resulted in the company, per estimates from Bernstein Research, spending “at least an order of magnitude more on [its data center group, or DCG] than any competitors have available.”
That high-level investment certainly wasn’t always that high. In fact, as you’ll soon see, it went from “big” to “really big” over the course of the last several years.
In this article, I’d like to go over the trajectory of Intel’s spending increases in this segment.