Hello round peg, meet pentagnal shaped hole
I suspect that Intel wants to take Centaur of the table, to block anyone else from snapping them up.
I have no idea what Centaur is like now, but it used to be a team of about 100 people in total. So when it came to making complex changes, getting positive and negative feedback from everyone involved in that particular change was relatively simple.
The shoehorning of the Centaur staff into the Intel way of working may not go so well.