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U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel

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607 points givemeethekeys | 1 comments | 22 Aug 25 21:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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cuttothechase ◴[22 Aug 25 21:31 UTC] No.44990065[source]▶
Genuine question-

How does Govt picking winners and losers going to help?

Intel is no Too big to fail Bank. Why save Intel of all chip manufacturers? Wouldnt it be like 25 years too late, with Intel and its heydays !?

Would Govt now ensure parity by investing in "marquee" entities across different industrial domains?

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miohtama ◴[22 Aug 25 21:52 UTC] No.44990294[source]▶
There is only 1 winner and 1 loser: Intel.

It's the only chip manufacturer "left" in the US. The argument is national security: the US expects China to invade Taiwan and this will kill TSMC in the process.

Whether this will happen or not can be debated, but this is what the government expects.

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ac29 ◴[22 Aug 25 21:57 UTC] No.44990357[source]▶
> It's the only chip manufacturer "left" in the US

Global Foundries, Micron, and Texas Instruments all come to mind

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1. hangonhn ◴[22 Aug 25 23:02 UTC] No.44990985[source]▶
re: Micron - Memory is very different from logic chips. You vast number of repeating cells in memory. If any of them are bad you can just turn them off and bin them as lower capacity. You can do that to some extend with logic chips but not nearly as much as memory.