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In August 2025, Trump announced the US buying about 10% of Intel, and lots of FReepers complained.

I don't know if that investment influenced Intel's Board replacing Intel's Chairman but it's a good thing they did. Otherwise, the US could have lost its last major manufacturer of computer chips. (IBM and AMD stopped making chips years ago, and Nvidia never manufactured them.)

So Intel is "saved" and the US will continue to manufacture state-of-the-art computer chips.

1 posted on 05/17/2026 8:57:59 PM PDT by powerset
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To: powerset

Sorry, the actual title of the article is:

Intel Chairman Frank Yeary retires, Craig Barrat to become the new chairman of the Board of Directors


2 posted on 05/17/2026 9:00:00 PM PDT by powerset
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Are you saying it’s saved because they elected a new Chairman? I don’t think so.


3 posted on 05/17/2026 9:03:03 PM PDT by lasereye ( )
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When this was going down and INTC stock was $18 and thought to be left for dead, I called my friends and said their real estate in Silicon Valley and their patents are worth $18, and that the stock would double in a year.

I was wrong, INTC quintupled in a year.


4 posted on 05/17/2026 9:39:48 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (q)
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Regarding the line “US will continue to manufacture computer chips”, don’t forget Texas Instruments, NXP and onsemi (Motorola spinoff).


5 posted on 05/17/2026 9:52:39 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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This is rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic if they don’t do something about the woke-ism that infests the place. (Former Intel engineer here). The head of HR used to work for Obama.


10 posted on 05/17/2026 11:12:49 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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my world has been software for 40+ years. if i was into hardware, i’d be looking into make a company that would produce every chip china produces here in the US.

Then promote it as ‘US made and worry free’... ie: won’t be calling home to china or failing at mysterious points in time.

the point to take over supplying the US defense sector.


16 posted on 05/18/2026 2:09:12 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Micron just started construction of a one hundred billion dollar chip making plant in New York state.


17 posted on 05/18/2026 3:04:50 AM PDT by odawg
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>> Intel late on Tuesday [Mar 2026] announced that its board of directors had elected Dr. Craig H. Barratt as independent chairman

What? There were no Indians available for this important job?


19 posted on 05/18/2026 4:22:12 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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