If he wants to succeed, he will need to reconsistute the board. That's a tough one since they appointed him, but otherwise it won't work. The type of transformation Intel needs to go through won't withstand a myopic, short term oriented bureaucracy.
Have you measured the difference in speed in moving data to the GPU? For enterprise AI workflows this is a bottleneck to utilization, so improved speed can help reduce compute costs.
This is a great book to learn about the Silk Road in particular Central Asia and the role Russia and UK played in its transformation. It reads like a Game of Thrones novel.
Interesting note is Russia colonized Central Asia with the end goal of invading India.
The payments could increase in the future as this approach becomes more successful and the ROI is better understood. Before this most companies would give into the trolls. Now there may be an increasing incentive to fight back. Few companies have the time, capital and governance freedom to do so.