Plan B was to soup up 14nm by enhancing it by as much as the rest of the industry is enhancing their 10nm processes compared to their 14nm/16nm processes, tweak the circuit design to allow for higher frequencies without increasing power, and add new media capabilities that have a serious impact on user experience.
In mobile, Kaby Lake is arguably a bigger improvement in CPU perf than either Broadwell or Skylake were. But you seem so set in your belief that Intel sucks that you ignore a lot of this goodness
dude you can keep defending Intel but just because process improvements happen does not mean architectural improvements cannot be done. AMD moved from Pilderiver (32nm SOI) to Steamroller (28nm SHP bulk) but it also had IPC improvements. This is not unheard of in the fabless ecosystem. Apple keeps improving IPC every year no matter even if there are process improvements. If AMD and Apple can why the heck Intel cannot. This tick tock process optimization rubbish is going to hurt them.