Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock

All those three, from what I can see, is a bit different though. Samsung is basically a part of the government, because of its history. TSMC is the market leader, so it’s in government’s best interest to protect its future.

Chinese large scale investments are a bit different. It’s not just SMIC who gets a lot of funding, but others as well, so they can still compete with each other, until the winner is chosen and the others fade away. Similar to what is happening in EV market in China.

Intel… there is a decent chance that company fails even after this investment. They basically need to force other companies to use Intel chips instead of competitors for them to be viable at some point.