It is NOT an imaginary boogie man. The US government now has a multibillion dollar stake in a poorly run company that’s been behind the technical curve for 30 years.
I already gave the solution a dozen times: STAY OUT OF THE MARKET. Let Intel fail. Because the company is already a failure.
Being behind the curve can be a good thing. We were behind the curve at the beginning of WW2 and Germany was at the top. then we were at the top. Things change.
My bet is on Trump and his team. Doing nothing and letting it fail leaves us in a worse situation, more enemy control. YOU do understand the goals of MAGA, don’t you?
And again: why is our defense dependent on a bad company that’s behind the technical curve and sells overpriced underpowered chips?
Intel has been behind the curve for 30 years. And not even just “the” curve. Intel has been behind every single curve in their industry for 30 years. Again: late to 32 bit, late to 64 bit, late to cellphones, late to GPU. They’re not getting ahead of the curve anytime soon. Frankly they were behind the curve in before then. They just happened to be lucky enough to be the chip for the IBM desktop and not have an exclusive contract so Intel could sell to the companies making IBM Clones. And then MS got behind that market segment and Intel rode those coattails to being huge. But honestly the 8086 architecture wasn’t very good, and wasn’t cutting edge.
If we really feel like we need to stick $9billion into securing chips for national defense go find a startup. For $9B 4 guys in a garage could make better 100% American chips than Intel. But now that startup has a bigger hill to climb because picked a winner.
I know the goal of MAGA just fine. It’s to create a lot of noise and get cultists to pretend these are good ideas. Out here in reality backing Intel will do nothing to make America great. It actually makes us worse. Congratulations America we now have a vested stake in a poorly run company, yay!