>The untold story of Intel's desktop (and notebook) CPU dominance after 2006 has nothing to do with novel new approaches to chip design or spending billions on keeping its army of fabs up to date. While both of those are critical components to the formula
If those components are "critical to the formula" then you cannot say that "it has nothing to do" with them.
Critical means: it has absolutely something to do with them too.
>The untold story of Intel's desktop (and notebook) CPU dominance after 2006 has nothing to do with novel new approaches to chip design or spending billions on keeping its army of fabs up to date. While both of those are critical components to the formula
If those components are "critical to the formula" then you cannot say that "it has nothing to do" with them.
Critical means: it has absolutely something to do with them too.