Posted on 08/14/2025 3:14:43 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
Intel shares rose 7% on Thursday after Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration is in talks with the chipmaker to have the U.S. government take a stake in the struggling company.
Intel is the only U.S. company with the capability to manufacture the fastest chips on U.S. shores, although rivals including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Samsung also have U.S. factories. President Donald Trump has called for more chips and high technology to be manufactured in the U.S.
The government’s stake would help fund factories that Intel is currently building in Ohio, according to the report.
Earlier this week, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan visited Trump in the White House, a meeting that took place after the president had called for Tan’s resignation based on allegations he has ties to China.
Intel said at the time that Tan is “deeply committed to advancing U.S. national and economic security interests.” An Intel representative declined to comment about reports that the government is considering taking a stake in the company.
“We look forward to continuing our work with the Trump Administration to advance these shared priorities, but we are not going to comment on rumors or speculation,” the spokesperson said.
Tan took over Intel earlier this year after the chipmaker failed to gain significant share in artificial intelligence chips, while it was spending heavily to build its foundry business, which manufactures chips for other companies.
Intel’s foundry business has yet to secure a major customer, which would be a critical step in moving towards expansion and giving other potential customers the confidence to turn to Intel for manufacturing.
In July, Tan said that Intel was canceling plans for manufacturing sites in Germany and Poland and would slow down development in Ohio, adding that spending at the chipmaker would be closely scrutinized.
Under Trump, the U.S. government has increasingly moved to put itself at the center of deals in major industries. Last week, it said it would take 15% of certain Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices chip sales to China. The Pentagon bought a $400 million equity stake in rare-earth miner MP Materials. It also took a “golden share” in U.S. Steel as part of a deal to allow Nippon Steel to buy the U.S. industrial giant.
Intel shares are now up 19% this year after losing 60% of their value in 2024, the worst year on record for the chipmaker.
Government ownership pf private enterprise = state capitalism.
Plus, less than a week after demanding his resignation, President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the career of Intel's CEO an "amazing story."
An amazing story & still doing business with the Chicom military.
Mussolini would recognize this arrangement. Government owning businesses us a bad idea. Short circuits the market. A competitor cannot enter because they would be computing with the US government.
TACO Trump went from dissing the CEO to taking a stock in the company? What the.
Yes, I’m with you. This is a VERY BAD idea — it is industrial policy on steroids. It’s worse than the US Gov’t “investment” in Solyndra and many other such “investments.” It harms Intel’s competitors. It results in all companies hiring lots more K Street lobbyists to get them a seat at the table.
I’m very surprised Trump would do this.
It might be the best way to keep China (and others) away from our technology.
Private industry is best, but they usually end up being infiltrated.
Just spitballing.....
So will this mean then that the US Government will be directly funding the Intel )(and other Tech company) H-1B and Green Card hose-over of American citizens…
…the same US Citizens taxed at asinine rates to allow it to buy part of Intel…
…so that I’m directly funding my own abuse and the invasion of my country by Indians?!?
wow this seems like a terrible idea and just un American - this is what the commie Chinese do.
“ Private industry is best, but they usually end up being infiltrated.
Just spitballing.....”
Trump will probably sell off the governments stake to Musk.
I favor “Golden Shares” as a tool to discourage foreign interference. Not so sure about taking stakes in companies but when faced with that vs. a bail-out grant I favor the stake. The country has given away too much money without a significant return already. We need to be exposed to the upside as well as failure. With grants all we really get is the failure and a little of the upside in taxes and employment someday.
“Plus, less than a week after demanding his resignation, President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the career of Intel’s CEO an “amazing story.””
Not the first time for being wishy-washy. Just like firing a man one day and praising him as you rehire him the next week.
Does Intel have trouble on the tech side with being competitive or a product value problem of some kind?
After he makes peace with Russia and Ukraine, he might have time to make peace with Musk.
Watch if Peelousy buys Intel stock.
“this is what the commie Chinese do”
The ChiComms buy it, tell everyone to buy it and then when it peaks, they sell their shares at a big profit.
I am an AMD guy. I hate Intel’s hidden antics.
The gov has a nasty habit of ‘bailing out’ faulty companies from GM and the insane TARP giving endless free money to BANKERS of all people.
I wish Trump had taken a stake in Palantir on January 20.
IBM: AMD’s best friend.
The Am386 CPU is a 100%-compatible clone of the Intel 80386 design released by AMD in March 1991. It sold millions of units, positioning AMD as a legitimate competitor to Intel, rather than being merely a second source for x86 CPUs. Wikipedia
My first PC was a Z80 running NewDOS80. In 1982.
I have a real bad feeling about the goobermint owning any private enterprise.
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