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HPE is the right size, market cap wise. All the other companies mentioned are to large (Market caps over $30 B). https://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-industry.aspx?industry=Technology&sortname=marketcap&sorttype=1
"a faster, more powerful chip than Intel for the first time."
First time in a long time maybe, but not the first time. Athlon K7 was faster than the PIII when it was released and Athlon X64 smoked anything Intel had to offer until Core 2 came out.
Intel's 10nm process is roughly 1.7x the raw logic density of the next densest 10nm process, albeit due to aggressive pattering techniques they also have the most complex process available to date.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/10_nm_lithography_process