Brave investors will be getting onto Intel, as there's some massive upside potential here over the rest of the decade, but boy that's a huge gamble. I will say that building out more fabs is likely what Intel needs to do more than anything. They need scale. Even if their nodes aren't as good as promised/expected and they cant charge top price, they still need the ability to procure and satisfy a large number of customers and quantity. Because there's no going back from this. This is a 'failure is not an option' situation. They have to make the foundry business work. They've forced themselves into a 'spend big or go home' strategy.
I honestly dont like it. Intel had no reason to be so confident in their execution to go betting the farm like this. I really feel if they wanted to do the foundry business thing, they should have gotten their fabs in order and competitive first, and then started making investments into expansion and external customers.