Posted on 09/18/2025 2:33:56 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Nvidia (NVDA.O), said on Thursday it would invest $5 billion in Intel (INTC.O), throwing its heft behind the struggling U.S. chipmaker just weeks after the White House engineered an extraordinary deal for the federal government to take a massive stake in the company. Nvidia's support offers Intel a new chance after years of turnaround efforts failed to pay off, and triggered a 23% jump in the U.S. chip manufacturer's shares. The stake will make Nvidia one of Intel's largest shareholders, giving it roughly 4% of the company after new shares are issued
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My, how the mighty have fallen…
It would be good for us to have at least two world class chip makers...both for reasons of national security and for economic/balance of trade reasons.
So, Intel is to big to fail?
I don’t like the government buy stock.
I saw it coming in 2013 when they were struggling to make 10nm process on 193nm lithography work.
Yields were almost non-existent on 12” wafers.
This went on for 5 years while the rest of the world jumped to EUV.
Glad I left in 2013 after 30 years in design.
I agree with that for national security purposes the U.S. needs domestic chip makers. I believe that’s why President Trump had the gov’t invest in Intel. I’m not a proponent of government getting into private business. However, national security w/a technology like computer chips is essential for our safety. Being a history buff, some might recall the battle for Midway during WWII. Many of our planes had their bombs dropping into the ocean indiscriminately because the bomb switches were faulty. Those switches were made in Japan.
Trump didn’t invest in intel. Biden just threw money at intel uninvited.
Trump said that the USA should get something in return.
that’s it.
I want to thank you for your help on earlier chips. Intel always had innovations in their back pocket to ding AMD, Cyrix, and VIA. Of course, they offed Cyrix and VIA. Intel’s top dollar approach frustrated me, but with the testing from PC Magazine and others, the price was often just worth it. I spent so much of my life on Intel computers.
For the past ten years, we let our Intel laptops get eclipsed by AMD processors and graphics. AMD is our only choice for our current equipment.
You gave me fond memories, Zathras.
I purchased a 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700HX - GeForce RTX 4060 a year and a half ago for flight simulators and have been very happy with its performance. But every other laptop and mini-PC we have purchased since that time (5 in total) has been AMD Ryzen based. The value of the AMD based computers recently has been significantly greater to the point that the decision has been a no-brainer.
To me it feels like in the last couple of years that Intel bet the farm that AI capabilities would be the best gimmick for selling more CPU/APUs. They had the media behind them, but consumers and software vendors not as much. This is obviously an evolving area so as time goes on this may payoff, but not so much right now.
“It would be good for us to have at least two world class chip makers”
Yes, world class. Lets hope this improves Intel because right now they’re crap and falling behind.
The sad thing is the only industry holding up markets right now is tech due to the “hopes” of AI. Tech plummets kiss the market and mid-terms goodbye.
I meant to mention that the one beef I had was that Intel made the Pentium IIs on a card, so that AMD couldn’t make an x86 chip that would fit the socket. They pretended there was a technical need, but the clunky cards went away with later Pentiums when AMD went in a different direction.
I built several SuperMicro systems but also had an Athlon 64-bit chip system that I also enjoyed.
SuperMicro was always top-of-the-line quality.
When the Pentium IIs were out, the Alpha was the only 64 Bit chip available, unless MIPS or SPARC had one. That was outside my comfort zone.
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